by MTI | Dec 4, 2024 | Disaster Response, Education, General, Mobilisation
1. Disaster response This year, OM MTI responded to two disasters in the region.The first was a landslide in Mulitaka, Papua New Guinea in May that caused almost 2,000 villagers to be buried. The second disaster we responded to was Typhoon Yagi in Myanmar. In both...
by MTI | May 15, 2024 | Education
Happy, Mercy, Faith and Hope. These are the names of the English classes that OM Mercy Teams International (OM MTI) has been conducting in Indonesia for more than 2 years. Altogether, there are five such ESL classes in various parts of the country. Each week, the...
by admin | Sep 29, 2023 | Education
When Nurul* and her mother left their home country in Southeast Asia and relocated to a neighbouring state in 2019, they did not expect that they would have to return home after only a few months. Nurul’s grandmother had fallen badly ill and required their care....
by admin | Apr 3, 2023 | Education
“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade.” (1 Peter 1:3-4a) For...
by MTI | Jul 14, 2022 | Disaster Response, Education
Since he was a young child, 13-year-old Sok* has come to the OM Cambodia base in Phnom Penh for classes. For the past 8 years or so, he has walked or cycled to the base five days a week, rain or shine. From Mondays to Fridays, at half past one in the afternoon, Sok,...
by admin | May 4, 2022 | Education
It has been two years since Elin* left the Thailand-Myanmar border region due to the Covid-19 pandemic. To date, students have not been able to return to the school that Elin had been teaching in for classes. Their situation was further exacerbated by the political...