The Promise 126 Story

Children in Haiti are abandoned at alarming rates. The lack of infrastructure leaves them nowhere to go and no one to help them. Some are able to scratch out a meager existence on the streets, but their lives are often cut short. Others die quickly from starvation and dehydration. Mercy & Sharing takes in the children no one else will help and promises to care for them for at least 18 years. This is what Promise 126 is all about: a commitment to providing children the shelter, food, clothing, education, medical care, and love they need to survive and thrive! When you support Promise 126, you are partnering with us to change and save the lives of precious children.

Mercy & Sharing rescues the abused, abandoned and disabled and provides them with care, rehabilitation, education, hope and opportunity. Mercy & Sharing has developed systems and procedures that create a healthy environment and work to bring about systemic and lasting solutions for this overlooked population. Our skilled staff nurses these children to health, provide food, shelter and education, and most importantly, provide a loving environment that builds character and integrity.

The impact on the lives of the children in our program and the Haitians we employ is dramatic and deep—in many cases the difference between life and death, and in others, the difference between a life of poverty and a life of promise.

Our Philosophy

Mercy and Sharing believes that the best way to address Haiti’s overarching social and political problems is from within. Change will only be sustainable if economic and social behaviors are altered to ensure better outcomes for the next generation of Haitians. The organization is striving to equip Haitian children with the tools to solve their national issues and bring social and economic stability and democracy to their country.

Mercy & Sharing does not believe in removing children from their native country and their community. We do not participate in or facilitate adoptions. Rather, our care philosophy is to provide essential services to children at risk in Haiti and give them a life of hope, healing and possibility.

Mercy & Sharing has grown organically to meet the needs of the population it serves. For example, when children in our care facilities needed schooling, Mercy & Sharing began to teach classes at a building on the facility’s original site in Port-au-Prince. It was evident that the surrounding community also needed quality schooling, while at the same time, Mercy & Sharing needed the approval and support of the community in order to remain a secure and safe place for staff and children. To address that imperative, Mercy & Sharing expanded its services and opened the John Branchizio School that today teaches 617 children in primary and secondary classes.

Our Operations

Mercy & Sharing works primarily in the areas around Port-au-Prince and the Cap-Haitien and Arcahaie areas in the north. Since the earthquake, the focus of our operations has been our Williamson campus, a 17-acre tract of land owned by Mercy & Sharing and located approximately 30 miles northwest of Port-au-Prince. The campus includes three residential care buildings (orphanages), two school buildings, and a chapel building with office space, a generator building, a guard tower and security gate with perimeter security walls and two water wells. We have a 10,000 gallon per day water filtration system that services up to 150 people each day in the community.

Our chapel building is a 6,000 square foot structure that is fully solar powered and is a perfect space for retrofitting as a rehabilitation center, trade school, or training facility.

Mercy & Sharing also operates two other schools—one in Port-au-Prince and the other in Cite Soleil. Mercy & Sharing also runs seven nutrition programs in Paulette, Phaeton, Cite Soleil, Cazeau and 3 at our Williamson campus. We currently serve: 250 children in our three care facilities and school on the Williamson campus, 800 students at the John Branchizio and Cite Soleil schools combined, and 5,600 children and elderly, many of them blind, through our nutrition and clean water programs.

Today, Mercy & Sharing employs over 200 Haitian nationals in jobs such as, teachers,doctors, nurses, therapists, “mothers” (continuous child care), building engineers, accountants, cooks, and cleaning staff.

Our Methodology

Mercy & Sharing has developed systems, procedures, and evaluation measures for all areas of our operations. Each service area includes an orientation and training segment for new employees. In our care facilities, for example, each child is evaluated with the goal of assessing his or her needs and then developing a care plan that will allow the child to become as independent and self-sufficient as possible within his or her own limitations. Our approach includes:

• taking a history of the child—to the extent possible
• performing triage to determine the child’s physical and psychological ailments
  determining strategies appropriate to each child for improving their health and well-being
• needs-assessment and grouping children by needs
• assigning specific caregivers
• developing alternative paths for life skills training and education based on children’s physical and mental capabilities
• inculcating moral and religious values as part of a child’s psychological and social growth
• teaching every child to integrate handicapped children into his/her world view and daily routine

Questions?

For more information about this Sponsorship opportunity, please contact Mercy & Sharing.

Donate by Mail

Whether donating online or by check, include the name of the child in a note.

Mercy & Sharing
1101 Village Rd, Suite LL4D
Carbondale, CO 81623