The Mercy Children’s Home is located in Uriri, South Nyanza, Kenya. This home for orphaned and abandoned children was started in 1998 by Consolate A Muga. The boy’s wing was completed in May 2007. It is now home for ten boys who were sleeping in a portion of the tin shed which is used for the Mercy Nursery School and Church. A cow-shed has been built for the cow provided by a Victorian church and a calf was born in December 2007. The children now enjoy fresh milk every day. The cow is hand fed with a special long grass that is especially grown for animals. It has to be cut and chopped each day to feed the cow. All cows are raised in the ‘zero grazing’ method because of the danger to cattle of tropical diseases. A new kitchen and storeroom has been built.
A second extension for the thirty girls is currently underway. The trenches for the new girl’s wing have been dug, the traditional ‘huge rocks’ were placed into the trenches and the concrete poured. Mercy Home was originally ten girls, now Mercy Home has thirty six children, a third boys and two thirds girls. An upper slab is being poured to allow another storey to be added later. We urgently need funds to complete this building. It is a large building and it is eventually to be two or even three storeys high to be able to accommodate staff, a baby section and other facilities such as offices. At present people are sleeping on the floor on mattresses as there is just not room for everyone. Fifteen to twenty thousand dollars is needed to complete the upper slab on top of the ground floor.
We continue to believe God for the completion of this building.
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