The MIA vision calls us to use our resources to respond to issues of global poverty and crisis. Making a donation is a way we can use our resources in this particular situation.

The Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy Ireland are involved in doing some small scale drought relief in Turkana in Kenya but it is the North east of Kenya which is most badly affected by the influx of refugees from Somalia. We are therefore asking Sisters of Mercy and their associates to provide funds through UNICEF to those who are directly providing relief to those worst affected.

Information on this disaster is continuing to be updated on the mercyworld.org site

Messages to Mary Purcell - Assistant Director Global Action

Prayers are asked for the intentions of all those whose names are on the MIA prayer list .

Messages to:
Anne Hannon rsm - Vice postulator Europe and Africa
Sheila Carney rsm - Vice postulator Americas
Mary Duffy rsm - Vice postulator Australia, New Zealand, Philippines

An invitation is extended to those preparing resources for Mercy Day to share these with the broader Mercy network through contributing these to the Mercyworld.org website.

Over the next month, the Mercy resource section of Mercy e-news will be used to highlight resources for Mercy Day.

Please email your contribution to mercynews@fraynework.com.au for adding to the website.

Messages to Mary Reynolds rsm - Executive Director MIA

Committing nearly $1 billion to health of Joplin in next two years

Mercy announced plans last week to build a state-of-the-art hospital in Joplin, at I-44 and Main Street – along with plans to build additional health care services elsewhere in Joplin. In total, Mercy’s commitment to Joplin will include upwards of $950 million – something unheard of in most communities today.

“We are making this commitment because it’s the right thing to do for Joplin,” said Lynn Britton, president and CEO of Mercy which includes 28 hospitals and more than 200 outpatient facilities in a seven-state area. “The May 22 tornado devastated our community here in Joplin and destroyed our hospital but we’ve promised all along we would rebuild. We plan to break ground January 2012 and open the new hospital, as well as a secondary northeast campus, in 2014.”

 Messages to Pat Kenny rsm - Institute Communications or Stephanie Heiland - Institute External Communications Manager, will be forwarded.

1849: Foundation to Garnet Hill, Glasglow from Limerick
1858: Foundation to  Cincinnati, Ohio from Kinsale - M Teresa Maher 
1878: Foundation to Orange, New South Wales from Bathurst - M Bernard Sheehy
1959: Foundation to Florida from Wexford - M Dominic Sinnott

Sheila Carney's presentation to the Young Mercy Leaders' looks at leadership in the context of the Mercy family to which we all belong and [is framed] around the person of Catherine McAuley who is our first and primary exemplar. We look to her in order to understand how a person acts, how a person leads, who is motivated by the desire to make our world a more merciful space...'

Sisters of Mercy of North Carolina Foundation, Inc. operates exclusively for the benefit and support of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas South Central Community and assists it in furthering its charitable, religious and educational mission.

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