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 18,000 babies have been delivered free of charge for the poorest of the poor in Mercy In Action's Birth Centers, and tens of thousands more lives have been helped and healed in the medical outreaches. Mercy In Acton also operates a college of midwifery and holds seminars and training retreats to prepare midwives, nurses, and doctors to meet the global shortage of skilled birth attendants... 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 18,000 babies have been delivered free of charge for the poorest of the poor in Mercy In Action's Birth Centers, and tens of thousands more lives have been helped and healed in the medical outreaches. Mercy In Acton also operates a college of midwifery and holds seminars and training retreats to prepare midwives, nurses, and doctors to meet the global shortage of skilled birth attendants. We also train community visitors to accompany the parents on their journey of the First 1,000 Days of a child's life.
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