Marcy Grace still lives in temporary housing. Things are slowly getting back to normal on her small island in the Philippines three years after Super Typhoon Yolanda demolished her home and everything around her. Yolanda, (Known as Typhoon Haiyan in the rest of the world) was a game changer for everyone in the Philippines, and recovery has been long and painful. And never more so than for mothers who find themselves expecting new life amidst the ruins.
One shining light in the midst of recovery has been the Mercy In Action birth center and clinic, headed up by Licensed Midwife Nerissa Cumpio. Before the storm, Cumpio Clinic stood on the shores of the ocean in Tanauan, a small community on Leyte island. During the typhoon, this community took a direct hit, and all medical facilities were smashed into small pieces of cement and wood by the storm.
Thanks to the generosity of Global Giving donors, Mercy In Action was able to build this one clinic and birth center back to its former glory, and in fact rebuilt it even stronger and better than before the disaster.
Today, dozens of babies are born here per month; already more than 500 have entered the world here in the recovery phase of life after Yolanda.
So as Marcy Grace gazes at her tiny newborn beside her in the neat clean bed, as they both receive excellent attention and the best maternity care services money can buy (yet it is all free to her, subsidized by donors like you) she is thankful in her heart for this miracle of provision. She gives thanks, and leans down to kiss her baby.
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