Where We Work

Mercy Works is a not-for-profit charity organisation supporting long term development projects in Australia and the South-East Asia Pacific region, including Papua New Guinea, The Philippines and Timor-Leste. We work with some of the most challenged and vulnerable people and communities towards dignity and self reliance. We transform their future by improving health, enhancing social wellbeing and expanding educational and economical opportunities. In Australia we work with five First Nations projects as well as refugees and asylum seeker students in schools and adult literacy programs.

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#TBT Goroka women’s prison visit.

03 July 2025
Celebrating 25 Years of Mercy Works Theresia Boyek rsm and Maryanne Kolkia rsm visiting Bihute Women’s Prison, Goroka, Papua New ...

PNG, Simbu Province. 14 Water Tanks in 28 Days!

30 June 2025
In May, Mercy Works – in partnership with the Diocese of Kundiawa in Simbu Province, Papua New Guinea – undertook ...

A Heart for Helping: Lorraine’s Path from the Classroom to the Community

21 May 2025
When Lorraine Manning steps into the bustling corridors of the Bankstown Intensive English Centre (BIEC), there’s a sense of purpose ...

Statement of Support for First Nations People

In the spirit of reconciliation Mercy Works acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands on which we walk, live and work. We recognise their living culture and their unique role in the life of the areas in which Mercy Works are located. We pay tribute to all of those who have nurtured this country over many thousands of years, deriving spiritual and physical needs from the seas, forests, soil, rivers, lakes and streams, and to Elders past and present. We join our First Nations people in honouring these lands as sacred.