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MERCY Center Launches Capital Campaign
By Mercy Homes | August 31, 2007
MERCY Center held a lunch on Monday, February 26, 2007 to announce the launch of a year-long Capital Campaign to raise 15 million baht. The funds raised will be used to purchase a permanent home for the children and projects of the Mercy Center.The luncheon was held at the Mercy Center, located at 7/11 Moo 11 Nong Yai Soi 8, Sukhumvit , and was attended by numerous community leaders and members of the press.
The work of MERCY Center began in 2000 by Fred and Dianne Doell and is an authorized charity project of Goodwill Foundation, registered in Thailand.The Center strives to help provide educational, moral, social, and spiritual training for some of Pattaya’s most destitute residents and to bring hope to those in need.
MERCY projects include providing shelter for children at risk; scholarships for children needing educational support; and single parent support for women with children at risk. In addition, the Center provides food and staples to residents of the city’s chum chon (slum) areas, and to the incarcerated.
“In January 2006 we were extremely fortunate to find a property that is perfect to carry on the work of MERCY,” said international directors and founders, Fred and Dianne Doell
“This new facility provides a large home for the more than 20 children we presently care for, plus it has room for many more to come.” Since thechildren’s shelter opened it has protected and provided for more than 50 of the city’s most desperate children in need.
The property also contains a large factory building that is being renovated to house the many other projects that operate under the umbrella of MERCY Center.
“We have the opportunity to purchase this property and we are calling on people to become “Friends of MERCY” through this Capital Campaign to help make this dream a reality.”
If you’d like to find out more about the MERCY Center and how you can help, please email using our contact form.
The Mercy Center property provides a large home for the many children they care for, plus has room for many more to come. There is also a large factory building on the property that Center volunteers are renovating to house the many other projects that operate under the Mercy Center’s umbrella.The property owners gave the Center a two-year lease, with an option to purchase. This gave the Center time to “try it on for size” and they discovered it was the perfect fit! A successful Capital Campaign will make the purchase of this property possible, and provide a long-term home for the children of MERCY, plus a facility to house the many community projects.
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September 22nd, 2007 at 6:49 am
I think mercy is good