Inside the block
- Classrooms
- Dormitories
- Staff rooms
- Toilets
- Sick bay
- Offices
Mercy School
The school we have. The block we are raising.
Mercy School already teaches in Makindye — daycare, the administration block, One Together, a playground. The neighbours’ land was bought for UGX 250 million (≈ US$83,333). Temporary classrooms hold the extra children. The gift this season is the permanent four-storey block.
The school we have
Mercy School and the organisation, as they stand.
Daycare on the road, the administration block, One Together, a canteen, Year 3, and a paved play yard. This is the compound that filled up.
Mercy Daycare & Kindergarten, under the words In God We Trust.
Mercy For Life Africa on the wall. The office door, and One Together.
The storeyed house already standing. This is not the new block.
Balconies, the stair, and the paved court in front of the classrooms.
Merry-go-round and brick paving. The children already play here.
The canteen, the tank, and the play frame beside the painted walls.
“At school we care one another.” A classroom already in use.
Brick paving, murals, and a child crossing the yard.
The land next door
Temporary rooms now. A permanent block next.
The neighbours’ land was bought for UGX 250,000,000 (≈ US$83,333) so more children could fit. Timber-and-iron classrooms hold the lessons. The gift this season raises the four-storey block.
Land already bought
UGX 250,000,000 (≈ US$83,333)
The plot beside the school. Paid. Not the building.
What they have
Temporary rooms
Plywood, timber and iron sheet, so class can continue.
What we are raising
Four storeys
Classes, dormitories, staff rooms, toilets, a sick bay, offices.
Available now
Put up on the new land so lessons did not stop. Open to the red soil. A roof, a desk, a chalkboard.
The block we want
Ground floor, three upper floors, and a terrace on Lubega Road. This picture is a view from the April 2026 drawings — not a finished building.
The picture on the right is a drawing view of the block we are raising. It is not a photograph of a school that already stands. UGX 250 million (≈ US$83,333) bought the land. The gift builds the block.
The gift we are raising
A four-storey class block at Mercy School, Makindye.
On Lubega Road, Kipamba Village, Makindye. Ground floor, three upper floors, and a terrace. The children waiting for it are already in temporary timber rooms on the neighbours’ land, bought for UGX 250 million (≈ US$83,333). Write “classroom block” on the gift so the house knows.
On the plot
- Ground floor, three upper floors, and a terrace
- Plot 20.1 m × 15.6 m
- BLB/001/117492/MR
- Parking for three cars
- A children’s playground
- Septic tank and soak pit
How the block will feel
Classrooms, dormitories, offices, a sick bay — as the drawings describe them.
Sky-blue walls and lime-green frame on the 20.1 m × 15.6 m plot.
The 20.1 m × 15.6 m plot: the block, three parking bays, and a small playground pocket.
Desks, a chalkboard, and light from the windows.
Open-air walkways with black railings, looking over the school yard.
Simple bunks. A place to sleep in the same house as the class.
A desk for the people who keep the school.
A quiet room when a child is unwell.
Washrooms on the block, as the programme requires.
Every view above is a visualization from the plans, not a photograph of a finished school. Sky-blue and lime-green is a finish for the drawing.
The drawings
Site, structure, stairs, and services — as the engineers drew them.
Prepared for Mrs. Fausta Nalubega by SMEGE Investments Ltd, April 2026. Tap a sheet to open it. These are the plans the gift is walking toward.
Site layoutPlot, playground, parking, and the Lubega Road site.
Beams, slabs & foundationsTypical floors and the foundation layout.
Terrace & ring beamsThe roof terrace slab and ring-beam layout.
StaircaseSection through the stair from ground to terrace.
Columns & footingsColumn sizes, slab edges, and a typical footing.
Septic tank & gateServices, boundary wall, and the entrance gate.
Two places
Where Mercy School stands — and where it will grow.
Open now
Mercy School, Makindye
Makindye, Kampala, Uganda
Daycare and kindergarten on the road, the administration block, One Together Inc Block, a canteen, and a paved play yard. This is Mercy School as it stands in Makindye — and it is already full.
Later
Mercy School, Mityana
Zigoti Town Council, Mityana, Uganda
Five acres in Zigoti Town Council, Mityana, wait for a bigger Mercy School. That campus is the next chapter. This season’s gift is the classroom block in Makindye.
In class
A school, not a distant bursary.
Mercy School is how education lives in this house. Fees are paid. Scholastic materials arrive. Teenage mothers walk back to a desk after delivery. The choir rehearses in the same yard the letters are written in.
The children who learn here are known by name. Sponsorship is not a catalogue. It is a term paid, a uniform still worn, a report card held up to the camera. That is Mercy School today.
If you came looking for a school
Mercy School, in plain words.
What is Mercy School?
Mercy School is the school of Mercy For Life Africa. Children learn in Makindye, Kampala — classrooms, a courtyard, a choir, and fees paid so orphans and neighbours stay at a desk.
What are you building now?
A four-storey classroom block at Mercy School, Makindye. The neighbours’ land was bought for UGX 250 million (≈ US$83,333) so more children could fit, and temporary timber classrooms are already in use. The permanent block will hold classrooms, dormitories, staff rooms, toilets, a sick bay, and offices. Five acres in Zigoti Town Council, Mityana, remain the later campus.
How can I help Mercy School?
Sponsor a child for this term, or give toward the Makindye classroom block. On the Donate page write “classroom block” or “Mercy School” in the note, then WhatsApp or email the house so they know your name.
After you give, WhatsApp the house or write mercyforlifeafrica@gmail.com. Say if the gift is for a child’s fees or for the classroom block.
From the field
Classrooms, letters, a courtyard singing.
The painted compound, the temporary classrooms on the new land, and the lessons already underway.
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A peace lesson under iron sheets
At Mercy Schools the chalkboard is Romans 12: live at peace, refuse revenge, respect culture, share a meal, sit with the elders. The children wear the pink shirts. The floor is packed earth. The lesson is the neighbourhood they will inherit.
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The whole room, learning peace
The same Mercy Schools classroom, filmed from the back: pink shirts, packed-earth floor, Romans 12 on the board. A shorter look at the lesson the children will inherit.
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The same room, the same children
A still from that classroom — teacher in pink, pupils in Mercy Schools shirts, exercise books open on desks that have already seen many terms.
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The map on a back, in class
A volunteer sits among secondary students in the official Africa-map shirt — food, hygiene, beds, medical, hope, houses, sanitation, education, dignity — while a teacher works the board.
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A fish on a tray, a whole class leaning in
Science in the yard: a teacher in the pink Mercy shirt holds a tilapia on an orange tray while the children crowd close — uniforms, grins, a lesson they will remember with their hands.
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Maria writes home
Nalule Maria of Mercy Schools–Makindye holds her end-of-term report and a letter to Ross Hoffman. She is eleven, in Primary Seven, sitting her leaving examinations in November. She thanks him for caring for her since she was small, and says she wants to come and see the family she has only known by faithfulness.
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Maria, in the classroom, with her letter
Nalule Maria stands among her classmates holding the report and the letter to Ross Hoffman. You can see the desks, the bags, the room that a sponsorship actually pays for.
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The same girl, years on
A short before-and-after: Maria as a small child holding a letter, and Maria now — waving from the school doorway in a white shirt. Sponsorship is not a moment. It is a childhood.
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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.
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Letters on the steps
The same morning, closer in. Children hold thank-you pages and drawings on the school steps — red pillars, cream shirts, a girl in yellow at the centre. Sponsorship here has handwriting.
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Mercy School sports day
Four boys in Uganda and club kits stand under black and yellow balloons at a Mercy School sports day. Fees are not only a desk. They are a childhood that still gets to play.
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Crested crane, painted faces
A girl in a flag-cloth dress and a boy in a crested-crane shirt, faces painted in black, yellow and red. National days at Mercy Schools are part of the same mercy that keeps them in class.
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Thank you for paying my school fees
A pupil of Mugwanya Preparatory School, Kabojja, holds a letter dated 22 August 2026 — Mercy For Life Africa, P.O. Box 34575, Kampala. He looks at the camera and says it plainly: thank you for paying my school fees and taking care of my family.
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Ssekitoleko Timothy writes to One Together
Ssekitoleko Timothy of Mercy Schools–Makindye holds his end-of-term result slip and a letter that begins Dear One Together. He thanks them for school fees and for pens. The report is dated 2026. The signature is a heart.
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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.
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Merry Christmas, all around the world
The children hold lyric sheets and sing: I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas, all around the world. A small boy in a beige jumper keeps the clap. The gospel they preach is a song you can join from Idaho or from the next compound.
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Lunch in the timber classroom
Mercy School children in orange sit at low desks with plates and soda. Fees keep a child at a desk. A meal keeps them there through the afternoon.
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The same table, another day
Plates of posho and stew, bottles of soda, grins. School feeding is not a campaign. It is Tuesday.
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Desks on packed earth
The room is finished enough to learn in: timber walls, a chalkboard, exercise books, a teacher in the white polo leaning over a boy’s page. Mercy School, as it looks this term.
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Favourite subject, on the board
Mercy Schools shirts, open books, a teacher at a chalkboard that says favourite subject. The floor is still earth. The lesson is already happening.
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A teacher over two pages
Two boys in pink polos, a teacher in the Mercy Schools shirt, exercise books filling. This is what school fees buy: a person who will stand at the desk until the sum is right.
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The whole class on the floor
Orange uniforms, number chairs, a wall of handwritten charts. Some lessons happen at desks. Some happen sitting close enough to hear the smallest child.
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The map on a back, in class
A staff member in the official Africa-map shirt stands with a pupil and a mother in a classroom of alphabet charts. Education here is a household, not a department.
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A circle on the porch
Pupils sit in a ring on the Mercy School steps — orange shirts, sandals in a pile, the One Together mural behind them. Assembly here is a porch and a listening seat.
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The same porch, another talk
A teacher on a stool, children on the tiles, shoes off. Mercy School is small enough that a whole class still fits on the steps.
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Before, and after a desk
Seven children, numbered. Above: a compound, no uniforms. Below: the same seven holding result slips in Mercy School shirts. Sponsorship is not a moment. It is a childhood.
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Najjemba Betty, UCE 2025
Najjemba Betty holds her letter to the house after the 2025 Uganda Certificate of Education. Geography an A. A first grade. The child a sponsor kept in class is now a candidate who passed.
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Nassolo Latifah writes home
Nassolo Latifah of Stella Maris College, Nsuube, holds her UCE letter dated 15 February 2026. She thanks the house for the fees that carried her through senior four, and she is aiming at A-level.
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Nantongo Shanitah, first grade
Nantongo Shanitah holds her own page: a first grade at UCE, a thank-you to the person who paid, and a promise not to let the house down at A-level. That is what a fee, paid on time, grows into.
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A child, a statue, a quiet minute
A Mercy Schools boy kneels before a small statue of Mary. The choir preaches by singing. Faith in this house also looks like a child who has been given time to pray.
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In the white robes
Children of the house in choir robes at a church door. They do not only receive fees and food. They give — in rehearsal, in worship, and on a Sunday morning.
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The whole yard, singing
Cream shirts, check skirts, lyric sheets in the air, the climbing frame behind them. The choir is not a stage act. It is the neighbourhood, on its feet, preaching by singing.
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A lyric sheet, a voice
One girl, one page, the rest of the choir around her. Rehearsal looks like this: a child who has been given something to sing, and is not ashamed to sing it.
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Maria, with her letter in her hands
Nalule Maria of Mercy Schools–Makindye holds her report card and the letter to Ross Hoffman. Eleven years old. Primary Seven. The same girl the films are of — still, so a sponsor can see her face.
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Letters in the courtyard
Cream uniforms, backpacks, pages in their hands. Sponsorship is a child who can walk into the yard on a weekday and hold the term up to the camera.
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Shepherds at the school door
Mercy School children in white robes and maroon wraps stand with wooden staffs at the office door. The choir does not only sing. At Christmas they become the story they have been rehearsing.
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The nativity, on a church floor
A shepherd, Mary with the child, a zebra in a white sheet — the Mercy For Life Africa Children’s Choir playing the Christmas story under a tree of lights. They preach by singing, and on this night they preach by becoming the gospel.
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The pile in the yard
A knot of children in the compound, every face a grin, a plastic car behind them. This is what the house is for on an ordinary afternoon: children who still get to play.
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A gown at the Mercy Schools door
A Mercy Schools teacher stands in her graduation gown against the office glass — Africa map, blue stars, the house behind her. The children who stay in class grow into the adults who keep the house.
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Gown, porch, the whole school
The same graduate, on the Mercy School porch, buried in children. One Together on the mural. Sandals in a pile. A qualification that still belongs to the courtyard that raised her.
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A bag, a stack of books
Staff put a black backpack and a pile of exercise books into a student’s hands at the Mercy School office. Fees keep a child in class. A bag and a pen keep her there through the term.
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The whole step, new bags
Learners on the Mercy School steps with backpacks, books, and a box of shoes at their feet. This is what a donor’s gift becomes on a Tuesday: a bag a child can walk to class with.
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The boys, with their bags
Staff clap as the boys hold up backpacks and exercise books on the Mercy School porch. The gift is not a speech. It is a bag that will still be on a shoulder in July.
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The whole school, in orange
Mercy School Makindye on a bright morning: orange dresses, visiting friends, the One Together mural, a sign that says education is the greatest treasure. This is the campus the fees pay for — and the reason five acres wait in Mityana.
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Fractions, a visiting hand
A visiting friend writes in an exercise book while two Mercy School girls in orange watch. Naming Fractions is on the wall. Sponsorship here can look like a lesson, not only a transfer.
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Toys against the black gate
Toddlers of the house sit along the gate with a yellow truck and a racing car. Fees and food keep them. Play is how you know a childhood is still being had.
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Mercy Daycare and Kindergarten
The road front of the school: Mercy Daycare & Kindergarten, under the words In God We Trust. Registration is in progress.
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Administration block
Mercy For Life Africa painted beside the office door. This is the house of the organisation, already standing.
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One Together Inc Block
The storeyed house already over the courtyard. This is not the new classroom block.
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The same block, from the yard
Balconies, the stair, and the paved court in front of the classrooms already in use.
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The play yard
A merry-go-round, a spring horse, brick paving. The children already play here.
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Canteen and water
The canteen, the water tank, and the play frame beside the painted walls.
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Year 3
“At school we care one another.” A classroom already in use on the painted compound.
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The courtyard
Brick paving between the classrooms. A child crossing the yard the school already has.
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A temporary room, from the corner
Plywood, timber and iron sheet on the land next door. A block wall beside it. This is shelter for a lesson, not the permanent block.
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Children already inside
The temporary classrooms on the new land. Desks are in. Children are seated. Class did not wait for the permanent block.
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A walk along the temporary rooms
The row of temporary classrooms on the neighbours’ land: plywood walls, iron sheet, red soil, and children at desks.
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A teacher at the board
Science on a green board, in a room of timber and block. The lesson is happening while the permanent block is still a drawing.
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An exercise book open
A Mercy School pupil writing in class. The desk is real. The room around it is temporary.
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Geography of Africa
A map of Africa on the board, under an iron roof. The children are studying in the rooms that hold them until the block stands.
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Marking, then the class waves
Books open, a teacher marking, then the children of the class turn to the camera. Lessons are already underway.
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A peace lesson under iron sheets
Mercy Schools shirts, a packed-earth floor, a peace lesson on the board. This is class in the rooms we have.