Makindye · Kampala · Uganda
Mercy that restores. Life that flourishes.
Since 2013 we have walked with orphans, teenage mothers, and families in Kampala’s slums — through school fees, clinics, food, skills, and a children’s choir that sings the work into the world.
Vision
To improve the livelihood of the less privileged.
To provide good health services and raise the standard of living of the poor and the needy in the slums — through clothing, food, shelter, education, sanitation, and entrepreneurial skills.
2013
Founded in Makindye
Mercy School
Open in Makindye
5 acres
Waiting in Mityana
Choir
Children who preach in song
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Sponsor a child
Walk with one learner in Kampala the way a parish priest once walked with our founder — fees, visits, a name, a future.
Find the organisation
A Ugandan NGO in Makindye, Kampala, founded in 2013. Education, health, food, skills, and a children’s choir.
Mercy School
A school in Makindye. A bigger one waiting in Mityana.
Mercy For Life Africa runs Mercy School in Makindye — classrooms, a courtyard, a choir. Next: construct a big school on five acres in Zigoti Town Council, Mityana.
The organisation badge
SERVING: UGANDA
Mercy For Life-Africa
The hand on the badge is the name we use. We work in one country, with both hands: meals, hygiene, beds, medical care, hope, clean water, houses, sanitation, shoes and clothing, education, and the dignity that holds it all together.
Our work
Mercy with an address, not a slogan.
Mercy School — Makindye now, Mityana next
Education support
Mercy School in Makindye keeps orphans and children from the ghettos in class. Next: a bigger school on five acres in Zigoti Town Council, Mityana.
Read this ministry
When a bill stands between a child and a clinic
Medical care
We take the sick to hospital and pick up the bills families in the slums cannot meet.
A table, not a spectacle
Food ministry
Families come every day asking for food. We share what we have — maize, beans, matooke — with dignity.
Hair, sewing, baking — a trade of one’s own
Skilling & enterprise
Poverty loosens when a person can make something people will pay for. We train in practical trades.
They preach by singing
Children’s choir
The Mercy For Life Africa Children’s Choir sings the gospel, raises the community, and carries the work to the world.
After delivery, a desk
Teenage mothers
A baby is not the end of a girl’s education. We counsel, support, and walk her back to school.
From the field
This is the work, in the rooms where it happens.
A school courtyard, a green bag in the street, a baking class, a night on a ward, friends under the mango tree.
Education
The courtyard, the whole house
Mercy Schools–Makindye on a bright morning: cream uniforms, letters in every hand, staff in the Africa-map shirt, the One Together mural on the wall. This is the school the fees actually pay for.
Video · Children’s choir
The courtyard sings
The whole school in the yard — cream shirts, check skirts, papers waving, teachers at the back — singing together under the climbing frame. This is the choir as a neighbourhood, not a stage.
Medical care
Carried to the clinic
A staff member holds a toddler on the way to care — mask on, iron roof overhead, the child looking past the camera. Medical ministry starts with someone willing to pick a child up.
Guidance & counselling
Holding on is the sermon
Director Nalubega Fausta holds a neighbour in a banana garden behind the house. Two boys wait on white chairs. Guidance is not always words. Sometimes it is a back, held, until the person can stand again.
Food ministry
Green bags in the street
Director Nalubega Fausta and the team hand out green hampers in a neighbourhood lane. Children crowd in. Neighbours lift the bags over their heads. Hunger in Makindye has an address, and on this day the address was full of joy.
Beds, houses & rent
Timber going up
Carpenters carry iron sheets into a classroom of timber and block. Shelter and school are the same mercy this month: a roof a child can sit under.
Partners & volunteers
Ross Hoffman at the house
Long-term partner Ross Hoffman with schoolchildren and staff at the Mercy For Life Africa office — the Africa-map on the glass behind them. A church family in Idaho tested the work in person, then stayed. September 2022.
Skilling & enterprise
Baking day at Mercy School
Orange shirts, grey aprons, star cutters, a bowl of dough. Skilling starts young: a trade a child can taste, and later sell.
Shoes, clothing & hygiene
Black shoes, a whole class
Girls in uniform hold up new black school shoes on the Mercy School tiles. A child who walks to class barefoot is not lazy. She is waiting for a pair. This is that morning.
The founder
She sold fruit on this road. Then she built a house of mercy.
After her father died in 2000, Nalubega Fausta spent a decade on the street with baskets of bananas and tomatoes. A parish priest paid her school fees. In 2013, still a university student, she founded Mercy For Life Africa in Makindye — sending most of her Ministry of Water salary into the ghetto.
“I trusted in the Lord that anything is possible with God.”
Nalubega Fausta, Director
Music ministry
They preach by singing.
The Mercy For Life Africa Children’s Choir is how the children give back — rehearsal, drums, gospel, and a voice that has already travelled from Makindye to sponsors overseas.
Give
A gift with a job to do.
We accept MTN MoMo (+256 789 014 405), Airtel Money (+256 705 923 537), Equity Bank, and PayPal. Amounts below are a guide to what your gift can set in motion this week.
Stories
What mercy looks like up close.
Education · clothing · a term packed
Bags, books and black shoes
Backpacks, exercise books, a carton of black school shoes on the Mercy School porch. Fees keep a child in class. A bag and a pair of shoes keep her there through the term.
Mercy School · the adults the courtyard raises
A graduate among the children
A Mercy Schools teacher in her graduation gown stands at the office door, then on the porch, buried in children. The ones who stay in class grow into the ones who keep the house.
Choir · partners · a feast day
Christmas at the house
Santa on a bench with a child holding new clothes. Shepherds at the school door. A nativity on a church floor. Christmas at Mercy For Life Africa is a lap, a song, and a child who was not forgotten.
Walk with us
If you have a hand to give, Makindye has a place to put it.
Volunteer, partner your church, sponsor a child, or send a gift. The work is already happening. It grows when you join it.