Sunday 5th February, 2012         


WINGS OF MERCY

The Wings of Mercy vision was birthed many years ago, when the Founder/Director, was a university Student in India. Touched by the millions of suffering masses in India, through his Christian faith, Roger and a couple of friends decided to make a difference. It all began by reaching out to the outcaste communities of India and the sick in hospitals with the message of Hope and encouragement, with gifts ,food stuffs, collected through locals and fellow students.Roger believes that every human being has an inherent God given potential to succeed if given a little opportunity and help to do so.

On his return, Roger continued to involve himself with social and community projects through both local and international organizations, as he realized poverty levels were at an increasing rate. Nearly 70% of his country men,were living below the poverty line!. He had to start somewhere, where poverty was steeped and rampant –none other place than the slums and the surrounding villages.

People within the community began to notice the effect of Roger’s work and the difference it was making especially among the children and youth. Due to the many requests that were arising for help, Roger decided to fully commit himself to the work of Wings of Mercy which then had finally been registered as a community based charitable organization. It is now four years ago, since Wings of Mercy was registered – registration no.4886 .

Within that short period, Wings has impacted hundreds of families in the Slums and surrounding villages, through its various educational programs, trainings, and income generating activities. Wings of Mercy supports a number of Schools in the slums, it has personally been involved in the starting and establishment of two of those Schools.





VISION STATEMENT

To empathize with the plight of the oppressed, underprivileged and vulnerable members of communities, by creating an enabling environment for positive change; through building & establishing value systems, institutions, and by empowerment: making our world a better place to live.



MISSION STATEMENT

To impact positively on communities living in difficult conditions, through: sharing information, resources, training and by empowerment.

CORE VALUES




I) Serving the community with love, understanding, compassion and humility to transform lives.
II) Empowering poor and needy members of our society to achieve their God given potential hence gaining respect and dignity for themselves.
III) Belief in the importance of good family and sound moral values, as the foundation for nurturing strong and healthy communities/ societies.
IV) Upholding virtues of honesty, transparency and accountability.

Website: www.wings-of-mercy.org

Our short term objectives are to:
i) Provide training seminars for those infected and affected with HIV/Aids.
ii) Mobilize communities in awareness campaigns on health related issues.
iii) Network with various relevant stakeholders on issues of community development with a view to assisting the poor and improving their lot.
iv) Initiate income generating activities and projects to assist the community especially the youth and women, to be self reliant and productive citizens.
v) Provide spiritual and psychological counseling using holistic approaches.

Our long term objectives are to:
i) Establish community based vocational training centres for skills development and technical training.
ii) Establish community based educational schools and health centres.
iii) Build rehabilitation centres for street children and drug abusers.
iv) Establish orphanages and children's homes.

NEEDS/APPEAL




We do have so many needs as we are dealing with needy communities.

-First and foremost priority we have is purchase land for the construction of an orphanage and a school for poor children; we need to start with about 2 million dollars. However every single donation that we receive will go towards achieving that goal. We do also have other immediate needs, as we support and take care of orphaned and vulnerable children, so if there is away one can sponsor one that would be excellent, it costs a minimum of –

-400 pounds a year to take care of the needs of a child,which include food,shelter,uniform etc.

-We also have need for deworming programs,in the schools,as we have a number of schools now that require that kind of program.costs about 600 pounds a month to deworm about 100 children

-There is also the element of feeding program which costs about 250 pounds month to feed at least 150 children.

These are some of the latest figures,as food prices and other costs have really gone up.Currently,we have an inflation rate of about 30% ! so you can imagine the agony the poor people are going through.We are talking of a people who earn less than 50p a day!, who without help have no provision for running water, proper housing and medical care, which then makes the infant mortality rate really high!.



If you would like to donate an arbitrary amount to Wings of Mercy, without accepting any rewards generated by the system, you can do it here by donating a completely arbitrary amount of pounds sterling. We, Nightingale Services Ltd, will pass on the amount donated to Wings of Mercy.