As with any charitable organisation Mercy Mission can always do with help.

If you in a postion to offer assitance of any type the mission can use your skills, from Admin and computer work, to helping sweep the floors through mowing the lawn to painting or other general mainenance. The kids always need watching or there is bookwork that needs looking at. All are welcome and can be used. As with any home there is also loads of work and jobs to be done at the building itself. There have been groups of volunteers that have come and gone (even the US navy lent a hand), but there is still much to do.

The mission is housed in a large, converted ex diamond factory, and although it has huge potential, there is so much to be done. Any budding builders, decorators, or just plain labourers, will be most welcome.

There is also a huge need for women to help out looking after the very sick babies who are in hospital. It is a terrible strain on the Mission’s resources. The staff don’t mind spending the nights at the hospital, but they need to be at the mission during the day to carry out their normal duties. So if there is anyone who can do a few hours at a local hospital, either on a regular basis, or on call in an emergency, please let us know.

We should just add that the mission doesn’t only take care of these kids in their residential home. They also go out and help the kids and the mums in the slums;
Run scholarship classes for very poor, local children;
Make prison visits to take food and water to the destitute and children in jail;
Send supplies to the refugee centers in the North for the Karen and other stateless folk;
Give assistance to illegal immigrants and try to provide safe houses for those awaiting deportation.

Their work is never ending, and their need of help is never ending......