St. Augustine’s College is an elite, all boys, liberal arts school located in Cape Coast, Ghana that is designed to prepare students for a variety of leadership roles through an advanced teaching-learning process.

This year we are also trading with a school in Shanghai. Their class runs a company called Ideo-Hiker Inc.

The University of Washington Foster School of Business has invited the students of Mercer Trade Inc. to serve as student judges as well as participate in a practice round of competition for the Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition. "The Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition (GSEC) is a leading-edge international social venture plan competition, where interdisciplinary student teams from around the world propose creative, commercially viable business plans aimed at reducing poverty in the developing world."

Mercer Trade Inc. has been invited to attend a series of workshops put on by Seattle University about different marketing topics including marketing strategies, business plan development, finance, and oral presentation skills.

Women's Enterprises International is dedicated to creating opportunities that equip women in developing countries to overcome poverty and transform their lives and communities. We do this by partnering with indigenous women’s groups in development projects that provide solutions to three systemic causes of poverty: lack of access to water, lack of access to business capital and limited access to education for girls.

Agros International is committed to breaking the cycle of poverty for rural families in Central America and Mexico by enabling landless communities to achieve land ownership and economic stability. We have learned that the root causes of poverty extend across communities and are passed down from generation to generation, and so the Agros development model is holistic, sustainable, and focused on long term results. This commitment to the long-term sustainability of a whole community serves to break the cycle of poverty in all its forms.

We are working with Seattle Adaptive Sports to put on a wheelchair basketball game on April 20th. Their Junior Sonics wheelchair basketball team will be playing members from the Seattle community. In addition to the basketball game, we will be holding an auction to benefit Seattle Adaptive Sports.