Mercy in Action is a non-profit organization that focuses on the crisis in Maternal/Newborn/Child health care worldwide. Our main outreach is to pregnant women and new mothers. We have been establishing and funding free birth centers for poor families in the Philippines since 1991, and to date more than 15,000 babies have been delivered free of charge for the poorest of the poor in Mercy In Action's Birth Centers, and literally tens of thousands of lives have been helped and healed in the medical outreaches. Mercy In Acton also teaches clinical internships, seminars and training retreats to prepare midwives, medics and nurses to meet the global shortage of skilled birth attendants, and t... read more Mercy in Action is a non-profit organization that focuses on the crisis in Maternal/Newborn/Child health care worldwide. Our main outreach is to pregnant women and new mothers. We have been establishing and funding free birth centers for poor families in the Philippines since 1991, and to date more than 15,000 babies have been delivered free of charge for the poorest of the poor in Mercy In Action's Birth Centers, and literally tens of thousands of lives have been helped and healed in the medical outreaches. Mercy In Acton also teaches clinical internships, seminars and training retreats to prepare midwives, medics and nurses to meet the global shortage of skilled birth attendants, and to help primary health care workers prevent unnecessary child deaths.
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By Jenny Fox | Project Assistant
Dear Friends, Thank you for your ongoing support of the birth centers in the Philippines. The Filipina midwives who work at these birth centers are clinically excellent providers of... Read the full report ›By Jenny Fox | Project Leader
Dear Friends, Thank you for your continued faithful support as Mercy Alumni. One of the programs that has developed out of the birth centers funded by your gifts is our First 1,000 Days... Read the full report ›By Jenny Fox | Project Assistant
Dear Friends, Thank you for your continued faithful support of our 1,000 Days Program. We are excited to share that we have now been running this program long enough to have some 'graduates,'... Read the full report ›