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Poguwatu Village
The dedication of the new Children’s Center included the Head of Regional Secretary of Central Sumba.
The Children’s Center in Poguwatu was completed as the first school in Poguwatu Village.
In September 2023 and David and Sharon Kealy visited Sumba Island to visit the children to encourage them and the staff and provide gifts and media to help them with their their studies. Additionally we spent time and ate meals with the 13 children at the Mercy Waikabubak Orphanage.
In September 2023 and David and Sharon Kealy visited Sumba Island to visit the children to encourage them and the staff and provide gifts and media to help them with their their studies. Additionally we spent time and ate meals with the 13 children at the Mercy Waikabubak Orphanage.
This village has an interesting story. For years, this village has been isolated due to incidents of leprosy. The village itself is so remote due to its social stigma that there is no road to get there. They have been left behind by society with no resources or clean water. We funded a water well at their Orphanage in Sumba, and their staff found out about this village.
The Mercy team flew out from Denpasar to West Sumba and walked for an hour and a half through the mountains carrying 100 pairs of shoes, food, and solar radios to get to the people of this village.
The Mercy team flew out from Denpasar to West Sumba and walked for an hour and a half through the mountains carrying 100 pairs of shoes, food, and solar radios to get to the people of this village.
Pastor Paulus said, ”It brought such joy to our hearts to see the 100 children in the village with smiles on their faces having never received a gift like this, some never having owned a pair of shoes in their lives. We can't describe how touched we were to see the children receive this for the first time.” Many did not even know how to tie their shoes.
Last year the founder/director Pastor Paulus met with the Mayor of the region and asked if Mercy Foundation could help this village to which he responded positively. Land is offered in a grant to build the needed building and water system.
Now with this permission, the focus of Mercy Indonesia Foundation's program is to establish a child care center, church, and build a well for clean water in the Poguwatu Village.
Last year the founder/director Pastor Paulus met with the Mayor of the region and asked if Mercy Foundation could help this village to which he responded positively. Land is offered in a grant to build the needed building and water system.
Now with this permission, the focus of Mercy Indonesia Foundation's program is to establish a child care center, church, and build a well for clean water in the Poguwatu Village.
local WATER supply and a school building
Sometimes a hand dug well is all that is required to provide a water source for an orphanage or village. Sometimes water is collected from runoff from roofs of buildings and stored in a huge tank. This prevents children and women from carrying water three miles to their village where they can collect it for use at their modest homes.
Dedication prayer for the second of three water tanks for Poguwatu Village.
Mercy Indonesia is dedicated to taking in the orphaned children of Indonesia and bringing them into our hearts and into our children homes. Here, we meet our children’s physical, spiritual, emotional and mental needs in a close relationship with their Creator. The primary caregivers in our children homes are orphans. They have first hand experience of what it feels like to be completely alone and unwanted in this big world; thus, our caregivers are more compassionate and empathetic towards our children than, perhaps, most others may be.
REACHING PEOPLE FAR FROM GOD
2010-2023
2010-2023
