About Us

At present, when many of the more economically disadvantaged women in countries such as Kenya and Zambia have their period, they have no access to the sanitary products that their sisters around the world take for granted. For those still at school, they are likely to be kept at home for four days, which research has shown can add up over a year to losing up to 13 percent of their school year. At home, leaves, rags, or other products will be used. Infections are not uncommon.

STAMENS is one of the projects under the umbrella of MARGARET MERCY MINISTRIES (MMM), an organisation specialised in helping children who cannot go to school because of poverty. A pilot project that has resulted in all the girls in one school continuing their education without interruption simply by supplying them with sanitary towels has been judged a resounding success.

MMM and her partners would by God’s grace like to extend this provision far more widely, not just in Rarieda district in Bondo, which is in Siaya County in Kenya, but also into other parts of the county, and eventually to other African countries.

The project has reached more than two hundred girls.

FRANCIS GARDOM is known for being a traditionalist, Anglo-Catholic priest of a type that has become a rare bird within the Church of England.

Less is known about the risks he takes on the streets of south London, where he has been working as a street pastor through the nights for 10 years, not always being thanked by the intoxicated, vulnerable people he helps home or to hospital after finding them vomiting and legless on the street in the small hours. He also teaches English as a foreign language and continues to serve as honorary curate at his church in Lewisham.

At an age when most would surely be thinking of hanging up the alb – he was born in 1934 – he is in fact fronting STAMENS, a charity that could bring relief to hundreds, even thousands of young women and teenage girls in Africa.

Margaret Mercy is the founder and president of the Margaret Mercy Ministries (MMM). She is a great wife to her husband and a mother of two sons and a daughter. She also is a spiritual mother to many sons and daughters offering help, advice, counsel, and even rebukes without fear or favour to correct towards the right course. Mercy is a writer and author of Christian books and articles, a great teacher, prayer warrior, and counselor. She is born again and accepted Christ at a young age and later in life fully confessed that Jesus Christ is Lord.

She was born in Nairobi, the Capital City of Kenya at the Mater Hospital, was bred, and undertook early Primary Education in Nairobi before returning to her hometown of Kisumu where she completed her primary and secondary education.

Mercy holds Honors Degree in Library and Information Sciences from Kenyatta University. Currently, she is in her final year at a Theological Seminary in Nairobi where she is studying for a Bachelor’s Degree in Theology.