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EdenLA is partnering with the incredible humans at Mercy Beyond Borders and donates 10% of all proceeds from our projects to their humanitarian efforts worldwide.Mercy Beyond Borders educates women and girls in places where females are considered less valuable than cattle. Through a case-management approach, they award high school and university scholarships to girls in rural northern Haiti, South Sudan, Malawi and in the refugee camps of Uganda and Kenya. They give micro-loans to refugee women who launch successful small businesses in the camps, empowering them to support their families. Girls escaping forced marriages find safe haven at the only all-girl elementary school in South Sudan. Mercy Beyond Borders enhances the curriculum with a school nurse, lending library, & new dorm and computer center. Their conviction: When women LEARN, women MATTER. THEN EVERYTHING CHANGES. Educated women will rise to become leaders in their communities and beyond, making real progress toward peace and equality. Your participation with the EdenLA family contributes to these efforts already (thank you!!!), but if so moved, please reach out to ask how you can become more involved with this life-changing movement.
MBB alum Vina Aleyo RN now works in her home village of Lopua. Before MBB, most of the women in these villages didn’t even know women could hold jobs and be in service. They were relegated to home duties and completely at the mercy of their husbands or male relatives.
A South Sudanese high school scholar sews at her refugee hut. Microloans allow women in refugee camps to take control of their own lives. Surprisingly, refugee camps are not as transitory as you’d think. People sometimes stay for upwards of 20 years. These micro loans allow women to provide for their families and avoid domestic abuse by being valuable breadwinners. Resources in UN camps has shrunk significantly and one meal a day (that is generally grain based and not very nutritious) is usually all they and their children receive.
The absolutely indefatigable founder of Mercy Beyond Borders is Sister Marilyn Lacy (seen here above with refugee mom Abuk Ajok).
Awards
Honored in person by the Dalai Lama in 2001 as an “Unsung Hero of Compassion”
Global Winner of $1m Opus Prize in 2017 for inspirational faith-based leadership
2017 National Purpose Prize Fellow, AARP
2018 Honoree, “Hear Her Song” concert at National Gallery, Washington DC
2021, Awarded the Christus Magister Medal, University of Portland, OR (watch the ceremony below):