Project Mercy Baja
Building Homes :-: Building Hope
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Isolating from COVID-19 in a cardboard shack in Tijuana, please help us help them
Imagine sheltering at home when your home is a shack with a dirt floor, walls made of scraps of wood, sheets and cardboard and your roof is a plastic tarp. This is reality for many desperate families that live just a few miles across the border in Mexico. They need our help now more than ever. Our non-profit organization, Project Mercy Baja, normally builds solid houses for these desperate families year round in the east Tijuana/Tecate region. But now, as a result of COVID-19, as US Groups are forced to cancel their upcoming construction, we have had to cancel at least 16 imminent house builds and face losing funding for many more.
With your help we can raise the funds for materials so that our Mexican construction crew can start building houses for these desperate families as soon as it is safe to do so. Each house costs $6000, but we are asking for your kind donation now in any amount, every dollar counts. Project Mercy Baja is committed to continuing with our mission to build solid and sanitary homes and improve the lives of these most vulnerable of our neighbors in need. Your generous gift will make this a reality for families left with no other hope for their future.
Our Mission
The mission of Project Mercy is to construct solid and secure houses and improve the quality of life for impoverished families in Mexico.
What Can You Do?
Paula Claussen CNN Hero
In January of 1991 a friend invited Paula Claussen to make the short trip from her home in San Diego, California, across the border to Tijuana, Mexico, to donate clothing to people in need. Claussen didn’t expect that day to change the course of her life.
“I was shocked by the conditions that I saw down there,” she said. “It was something that touched me very deeply, and I determined to try to do something about it. “.
As a direct result Project Mercy was created to improve living conditions and eventually, to build solid homes. The nonprofit has constructed more than 1,600 free homes for people living in Tijuana’s most desperate communities.
Adequate shelter is a basic human need
Every house built not only provides a solid and secure home for a family in need, but also hope for a better future.
Please visit the About Us page to view video of volunteers in action in our construction program.
Help Project Mercy year round on Amazon Smile!
- Visit Smile.Amazon.com and sign in
- Under My Account choose Your AmazonSmile
- Click the chane charity button
- Search for and choose Project Mercy – Community Development Projects as your Amazon Smile charity
