History of Origin

Mercy & Sharing was co-founded by Susie and Joe Krabacher in 1994 as a non-profit public charity. Mercy & Sharing has been working in Haiti for 15 years and employs more than 160 Haitians in our operations there. The passion and mission of Mercy & Sharing is simple; to provide hope, love, and opportunity to the abused, abandoned, and disabled children of Haiti. We do this through a variety of relief and development programs which are funded by private contributions.  Mercy & Sharing owns and operates two orphanages, a mobile clinic, three schools, and feeding programs across the country. The mission has expanded in recent years to providing food aid to the elderly and oppressed in the Cap Haitian region of northern Haiti as well.

Mercy & Sharing’s unpaid Board of Directors and co-founders contribute more than 100% of all overhead and administrative expenses. All general, outside donations go directly to Mercy & Sharing programs in Haiti

Details Of Operation

Mercy & Sharing has established a number of projects in Haiti in an effort to provide a safe haven for the many abandoned, malnourished and impoverished children who have nowhere else to turn. In Haiti one of every three children dies by age 5. All of Mercy & Sharing’s projects are designed to provide a loving, caring, and nurturing environment, and to provide opportunities for the children of Haiti with hopes that they will become strong and independent leaders of their country. Only by healing the next generation of children can Haiti have any hope of overcoming its problems. Please help us to help the children of Haiti in this endeavor.

Cite Soleil School and Feeding Program
The Cite Soleil School is located in the worst slum in the Western Hemisphere, a 27 square mile slum that was built on nothing more than a garbage dump. Even prior to the most recent catastrophic earthquakes in Haiti, this area had no electricity, no running water, open sewage canals, and had no sanitation system. Cite Soleil suffers from an immense amount of disease and death. The slum is not patrolled by the police, and it is unusual for the even the United Nations peacekeeping forces to go into Cite Soleil due to gang violence. Because we have worked there now for 16 years, our project is protected and held in high esteem by those who live in this slum.
 

Mercy House Orphanage (Cazeau)
After the earthquake this project was deemed unsafe for the children. We have moved all of the orphans to Williamson where they have reunited with the other children and are thriving in their new environment.

Mercy Health Center
Our health center and offices were completely destroyed in the earthquake. This project no longer exists but we are hoping to replace it with sturdy mobile clinics. Our office operations have been moved to Williamson.

Cervical Cancer Screening Program
Thanks to specific funding from one of our generous donors, we are now able to completely implement a Cervical Cancer Screening Program at the center as well, which will undoubtedly save the lives of countless Haitian women through the treatment and prevention of this needless source of death. Remarkably, cervical cancer is the No. 2 killer in Haiti, right after the biggest killer – diarrhea.
 

Williamson Campus
Mercy and Sharing’s new Williamson campus, located approximately 40 miles west northwest of Port au Prince has three new orphanage buildings, community and facility wells with fresh water, a church and feeding center, guard tower, depot, medical clinic and is surrounded by a ¾ mile long wall. This property is approximately 20 acres and we have planted 200 banana trees all around it. Currently this facility houses approximately 117 healthy and disabled/terminally ill children. They are given nutritious food, freshwater, clothing, shelter, education and above all, love. With roughly 70% or children disabled or terminally ill, we have implemented a physical therapy program that is greatly improving their quality of life. Since the earthquake, Mercy & Sharing has been running a successful mobile clinic at Williamson where we are seeing over 75 patients per day.

Feeding Programs
The Mercy and Sharing feeding programs of saved lives of literally thousands of children and elderly folks who otherwise would not have food to eat. The feeding program operates at the Mercy and Sharing schools, orphanages, and in two small villages, Paulette and Phaeton, in the Cap Haitian region of northern Haiti. We have more than 1,500 beneficiaries in our programs and we provided more than 830,000 meals in 2009.

School Programs
Mercy and Sharing gives more than 630 children a chance of the better life through our school programs. We have three schools, the John Branchizio school in Cazeau, the City Soliel school and the orphanage school at the Williamson campus. The children are given school supplies, books, clean drinking water, and as a part of our feeding program – a hot meal five days a week – even during the summertime. Mercy and Sharing also pays the salaries of the teachers and owns and operates the facilities.

Shipping
In 2009, Mercy and Sharing shipped and distributed over 350 tons of food, medical supplies and goods to Haiti. We are always seeking donations of containers of food and supplies. We distribute these donations and through our in-country infrastructure. We operate a warehouse near the shipping port in Port au Prince where we stage deliveries throughout the country.

Susie Krabacher – Co-Founder

Susie Krabacher is a dedicated humanitarian whose work with saving, feeding, and educating the poorest of the poor has been featured in People magazine, Marie Claire, The Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, the Denver Post, The Canadian Post, the San Francisco Chronicle and the LA Times, among other publications. Susie was a recent honoree of the World of Children, which recognizes the outstanding work of humanitarian’s throughout the globe. Susie’s work has also been broadcast on good morning America, Inside Edition and the Oprah Winfrey show. The driving force behind the incredible work of Mercy and Sharing, Suzy is a relentless advocate for the children, and was the recipient of the prestigious 2000 International Humanitarian Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Haitians in Washington, DC and was granted honorary citizenship as a Haitian citizen. She is also featured in the Hall of Fame of the Miami Children’s Hospital. Simon & Schuster – Touchstone published its Susie’s autobiography “Angels of a Lower Flight” on her work in 2008.

Joe Krabacher – Co-Founder

Joe Krabacher is one of the most blessed men in business today. Married to the former Susie Scott, Joe enjoys a thriving law practice in Aspen, Colorado with the law firm of Sherman Howard. Valedictorian of his law school class and editor of the law review, he is the recipient of five American Jurisprudence Awards. Joe co-founded a satellite communications company and a fiber-optic networking company. He is responsible for legal matters as well as financial and auditing matters for Mercy and Sharing, speaks two languages, plays the piano, guitar, saxophone and flute, and is an avid windsurfer and snowboarder.