Great Mercy cares for children at risk especially those from poor backgrounds, orphans and those that have been abandoned. Currently the home houses 10 boys and 21 girls. Children in the home are offered services to meet special needs such as rehabilitating orphans who are also under-age parents.

Most of the children who ‘drop out’ of normal school do so to earn money to live. They engaged in various forms of child labour. Boys are found on farms providing casual labour in maize production activities. Others are fully employed in bigger farms as herdsmen, dairy attendants, farm attendants and so on. Others are in town streets as parking boys. Girls on the other hand, mainly work as house helps. Some are also work on farms as labourers, especially planting, topdressing, weeding or harvesting. Many girls are subsequently enticed into early marriage or even prostitution. Great Mercy hopes to encourage these children back into their schools by offering the education and love that they desperately need.

All of this will happen with your help, it will take time, dedication and a lot of work.

Project objectives

To provide a home and education for needy children

To reduce poverty, ignorance and AIDS through a home based care centre

To create programmes that will help children acquire skills that will enable them to earn a living for survival (tailoring, carpentry, knitting, agriculture, poultry, dairy and bee keeping) once they have left the orphanage.

Great Mercy hopes to expand the facility to a 10 acre site to accommodate playgrounds and more buildings to cater for 320 children on full board. They hope to build more classrooms, an office block, two dormitories, a kitchen with a dining hall, an assembly hall,  a workshop and a school farm. Great Mercy also hopes to acquire more equipment for academic programmes and boarding facilities.

The project want to be self-sufficient so they keep four acres of land for activities that will ensure the centre achieves this.