Get involved
There is more than one way to stand with Makindye.
Give. Sponsor a child. Teach a trade. Pack food. Partner your church. The work is already happening. It grows when you join it.
Give
A one-time or monthly gift toward fees, food, pads, beds, or medical bills. MTN MoMo +256 789 014 405, Airtel Money +256 705 923 537, Equity Bank, or PayPal.
Sponsor a child
Walk with one learner the way Father Dominique walked with Fausta — fees, visits, a name, a future.
Build Mercy School
A four-storey class block on Lubega Road, Makindye — classrooms, dormitories, staff rooms, toilets, a sick bay, and offices. Give toward construction, or write to the house.
Volunteer
Teach a trade, sit in counselling, pack food, rehearse with the choir, or help us host a visitor from abroad.
Partner
Churches, schools, and organisations — from Makindye to Idaho — already stand with us. Bring yours.
Come and see
Partners already in the yard.
Ross Hoffman, visiting friends, and the poster we still hand to a church that asks what we do.
Come and see
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.
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Friends who came to see
A selfie in the yard — local staff, visiting friends, a water tank in the background. Partnership here is not a logo on a banner. It is people who got on a plane, or a boda, and stood in the dust with us.
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Together, we can change lives
The official poster: two pupils holding letters, the Africa map of the work, and the line the house stands on — Compassion in Action, Hope for Tomorrow. P.O. Box 34575, Kampala.
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Friends under the mango tree
Staff and visiting friends stand in the courtyard of the house in Makindye. Partnership here is not a logo on a banner. It is people who came, stood in the dust, and stayed for the work.
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At the office door
A visiting friend stands with a Mercy School girl beside the red pillar and the Education sign. Sponsors who come in person meet the child whose fees they pay.
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Walking with the sisters
Director Nalubega Fausta with a religious sister on the red-earth road. The house was born in a parish. The work still walks with the church.
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The children found her first
A visiting friend is surrounded on the school steps. Mercy School is not a distant bursary. It is a courtyard of children who know when someone has come to see them.
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In the schoolyard
Director Nalubega Fausta, a visiting friend, and the children behind them. The work looks like this on an ordinary afternoon: dust, grins, a wooden cross, a house that is not empty.
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Olive and a friend of the house
A learner named Olive sits with a long-time friend of Mercy For Life Africa. Sponsorship here has a face on both sides of the photograph.
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Santa at the house
A visiting friend in a Santa coat sits with a child who is holding a new bundle of clothes. Christmas at Mercy For Life Africa is not a catalogue. It is a lap, a gift, and a child who was not forgotten.
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A laugh in the chapel
Director Nalubega Fausta and a visiting friend in the Africa-map shirts, under a painting of children in the water. Partnership here has a pew, a microphone, and a laugh that does not need translating.
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The porch that says the name
Staff, visiting friends, and children on the steps under the letters MERCY FOR LIFE AFRICA. This is the house in Makindye. If you have been looking for this organisation, this is the door.
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A visiting friend, a child of the house
A young volunteer stands with a Mercy School girl in the courtyard. Sponsorship and partnership look the same in this photograph: someone who came, and a child who is glad they did.
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A family at the office door
A visiting family sit with Mercy School children under the Mercy Schools stars on the glass. The work is not a remote bursary. It is a morning on these tiles.
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Orange uniforms, a visitor on the tiles
A visiting friend sits with two Mercy School girls in the orange dresses. IN GOD WE TRUST is stitched on the pocket. That is the school the fees pay for — a child you can sit beside.
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The same afternoon, more arms
Four Mercy School children in orange crowd a visiting friend. The courtyard is loud. The work is this close.
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Under the mural of mercy
A visiting friend in a scripture shirt stands with two girls against the Jesus mural at the gate. Come and see is still the invitation. These two already did.
