How Far We've Come

Our story began in 2009 when Founder Chris Field took his first trip to Ghana and met a little boy named Tomas (pictured below). While Tomas was one of many children trafficked to work in the fishing industry on Lake Volta, he was the child Chris interacted with personally on that trip. Unfortunately, Tomas was left working on the lake after Chris returned home. Knowing Tomas was still out there - and that he represented so many other children - was the catalyst that birthed our new dream. We chose to call the work Mercy Project based on the verse in Micah 6:8 that reads "act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with God."

Since that trip in 2009, we’ve been on a journey to build a sustainable process that will allow us to help as many children and families as possible.