• Group of Mercy Girls at School
  • Mother of Mercy Girls Secondary School Lare Kenya
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  • Mother of Mercy Girls at School Lare Kenya
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Microenterprise Initiatives

 

Goal

The Mercy Center Foundation seeks to facilitate partnerships and assistance programs that will allow the Mercy Secondary School to move towards becoming a fully self-sustainable school in future.

 

Need

The majority of the population are peasant farmers in Lare, Kenya. Thus, low household incomes, poverty, debt, unemployment and under-employment are stifling the region’s ability to grow economically and improve their living standards. Additionally, cultural bias against women entrepreneurs exists. The Mercy Center Foundation, USA (MCF USA) and Mercy Center Lare (MCL) want to break this negative cycle and move the community toward self-reliance and sustainability. We are seeking technical and university experts as well as enterprise financing, training and partnerships that will create new livelihoods, opportunities for youth and women and economic growth for the Lare villagers and the region at large.

 

Pilot activities

The cultivation of cash crops, cattle and poultry programs will be initiated on our property. The expansion of a piggery and animal husbandry programs will be developed.  Cows, sheep, rabbits and chickens and a are now part of the farm management program contributing to the overall support of the Secondary School’s annual budget plan. Throughout this process, ongoing technical advice, training, equipment, raw materials and assistance in marketing finished products is being sought through local and international communities.

 

Both the Mercy Center Foundation USA and Lare are working in close cooperation to achieve new, successful programs that will help to sustain the Mercy Center Girls Secondary School and the Lare community in the future.

 

 

Farmers Training Programs

In taking ownership of the future, the Mercy Farm Manager provides open trainings in farm management and slow food programs that help demonstrate and share new ideas and techniques with the local farming community and families that make up the Mercy Project community in Lare, Kenya.
 
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Click below to view a short video of Simon, describing his role as the Farm Manager:

 

 
"Cows, sheep, rabbits and chickens and a fish pond are now part of the farm management program contributing to the overall support of the Secondary School’s annual budget plan."


 

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"Low household incomes, poverty, debt, unemployment and under employment contribute to a vicious circle."


 

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