Place of Mercy and Hope
Education, Nutrition, Health Care
Who We Are
A Distinct Identity
The Place of Mercy and Hope is a Public Benefit Organisation located in the Sundays River Valley, Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Our Organisation assists families who are from incredibly disadvantaged communities, with a specific focus toward children.
Our programs focus on Education, Nutrition and Basic Health Care helping thousands of children.
Our Impact
Our beginnings to present in numbers

Children Educated
20,230

Meals
1,468,500

Home Based Care Patients
515

Volunteers
35

Food Parcels
52,446

Years
15

Local Teachers Employed
17

Adult Education Graduates
2,500
Activities
Making A Difference
Education

Early Childhood Development
We care for over two hundred children with a staff of 14 dedicated local educators in the Valencia Formal Settlement in Addo. Our education program prepares our children to flourish in a Primary School environment.
Nutrition

Helping The Community
We are dedicated to stepping up our efforts to alleviate hunger and malnutrition in
this area. We run Soup Kitchens in a number of Formal and Informal Settlements
feeding hundreds of children and adults weekly. We distribute food parcels daily.
Adult Learning Courses

It always seems impossible until it's done.
Computer lessons are taught throughout the Valley, offering children and adults
the chance to learn and understand the importance of the IT literacy.
Youth Empowerment

One Step at a Time
A Summer Camp is held annually in December in the Langbos Informal Settlement. Our Youth Empowerment program develops every year. We welcome just under 500 disadvantaged children, 20 special needs children, welcome 10 newly appointed South African Marist Student Leaders (Head Boys and Head Girls) of the five Marist Schools, Marist Alumni from the five South African Marist, two German Marist Alumni and local volunteers who are mentored by the Marists.
Addo Township Designs

Entrepreneurship
Our goal is to empower local women of the Valencia Formal Settlement by
providing them with the skills necessary for sewing and embroidery. Raymond Nel
(a St Henry's Alumnus) donated sewing machines, a Wendy House and funded the
education of local ladies in business management. Addo Township Designs supplies school uniforms to local schools, creates handbags and can embroider anything customers require.
Health Care

Reinforcing our Commitment
Our mission is to assist those incredibly sick and dying by providing Health Care to the Valencia Formal Settlement.
We have three dedicated
Home Based Carers who walk Valencia Formal Settlement daily attending to those
who have HIV/Aids, Tuberculosis, Cancer and other common South African illnesses.
We also have a resident Medical Doctor.
Key People
Committed to the Cause