2006 saw many East African regions struggling to survive after a two year drought, the worst in a decade and a crisis which tragically caused the deaths of hundreds of children and threatened the lives of well over 11 million people. 

Responding to this internationally reported crisis, our founder Naomi Miller set up the beginnings of our charity after travelling with her parents from Kitale to the North Western region of the country, near Lodwar, delivering much needed food and supplies to famine-stricken areas made all the more remote due to their nomadic culture and poor infrastructure. This food, kindly given to them by the mission's branch of the Elim Church, a group of over 550 Christian congregations across the UK and Ireland, enabled Naomi and the team to ease at least some of the desperation of the people.

During this time the very desperate need to rescue orphaned and abandoned babies became very apparent to Naomi and as a result in 2006 she started a project in Kitale, Western Kenya, called the Baby Rescue Centre. By 2007 Naomi was caring for 8 children and the charity we are today was set up to support the amazing work she and her team were undertaking.

Today, Mercy Rescue Trust still rescues babies and young children that have been abandoned or abused, nursing them back to health in small and loving homes, before seeking to foster or adopt them into Kenyan families. We are a small charity, deliberately focused on providing loving family homes to children, in order to guarantee the highest level of care we can.