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A gift that becomes fees, food, pads, or a clinic visit.
Send MTN MoMo to +256 789 014 405 or Airtel Money to +256 705 923 537. Equity Bank and PayPal are here too. Call or WhatsApp +256 705 923 537 and +256 700 123 749.
Donors often ask
How to give from Uganda and abroad.
- How can I donate to Mercy For Life Africa?
- Give from the Donate page. In Uganda send MTN MoMo to +256 789 014 405 or Airtel Money to +256 705 923 537. From abroad use PayPal (MercyForLifeCorp) or a bank transfer to Equity Bank Uganda, account 1003201101232, SWIFT EQBLUGKAXXX. Then tell the house your name by WhatsApp or email.
- Where does a gift go?
- A gift becomes school fees at Mercy School, food, reusable sanitary pads, a clinic visit, shelter, the children’s choir, or the new campus on five acres in Zigoti Town Council, Mityana. Amounts on the site are a guide to what a gift can set in motion this week.
- How do I sponsor a child in Uganda?
- Open the Sponsor a child page. Start a monthly or one-time gift, then write to the house so we can walk with one learner — fees, visits, a name, a future.
Food ministry
A hamper at the door.
Christmas 2019 — staff in the Africa-map shirts, a green bag, a family at their gate. This is what a gift becomes when it leaves the phone.
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.
Food ministry
A green bag at the mat
Director Nalubega Fausta kneels in the Africa-map polo and places a hamper into an elder’s hands. Matooke in a basin, greens on a sack, family on the brick. Food ministry is a visit, not a drop-off.
Food ministry
Christmas 2019, a green bag at the door
Staff in the Africa-map shirts deliver a food hamper on 25 December 2019. The woman at the centre holds the bag with both hands. Hunger is not seasonal in the ghettos; a feast day is when we make sure the table is not empty.
Food ministry
He carried the bag home
A boy in the orange Africa-map shirt holds the green hamper beside his mother, while a staff member in the grey polo stands with them against a brick kitchen. The child is part of the errand, not a prop in it.
Food ministry
At the timber door
Staff stand with a hamper among children at a timber-and-iron house. A radio on the ground, Crocs in the red soil, a dog at the edge of the frame. Hunger in the ghettos has an address.
Food ministry
A hamper at the hut
Staff kneel at a thatched hut with a green bag, matooke already in a basin. Food ministry is a visit, not a drop-off.
Food ministry
The map on her back, walking
The official shirt, photographed from behind: food, hygiene, beds, medical, hope, clean water, houses, sanitation, shoes and clothing, education, dignity — and a green bag in her hand, walking an elder home through the coffee trees.
Food ministry
A plate, held with both hands
A girl in a red velvet dress holds a blue bowl of rice, matooke, stew and pumpkin. The kitchen is behind her. This is what the food ministry is for — a child who eats, and grins about it.
Food ministry
A plate, held with both hands
A boy in a red España shirt grins over rice, matooke, cabbage and stew. This is what the food ministry is for — a child who eats, and grins about it.
Food ministry
Rice, matooke, a grin
A boy in an orange shirt holds a red plate — rice, chicken, matooke, cabbage. Food ministry is not a speech. It is a child who eats, and looks up.
Food ministry
The pots in the banana garden
Staff lift the lids on two great pots — posho, stew, banana leaves. A meal for a school or a compound starts here, over charcoal, before it reaches a plate.
Food ministry
Another plate, another child
The same kitchen, another neighbour. A red shirt, a red plate, stew and rice. The queue at the gate is how a compound knows the house came.
Food ministry
Waiting at the kitchen gate
Children line the metal gate while a cook works the pots. Food ministry is often this ordinary: a queue, a kitchen, a meal that will be eaten standing in the yard.
Food ministry
Lifted from the dust
A staff member in the Africa-map shirt lifts a toddler at a tomato stall. Food, hygiene, beds, medical, hope — the map on the shirt is the week’s work, held in two hands.
Food ministry
The courtyard, full of matooke
Green bags of bananas cover the tiles in front of the canteen and the mural of mercy. Staff in the Africa-map shirts stand in the middle of it. Hunger in Makindye has an address, and on this day the address was a harvest.
Food ministry
A bowl in a compound
Staff in the map shirts serve posho from a basin while children wait with plates. A timber house, a queue, a green bowl. Food ministry is this close, and this ordinary.
Food ministry
A bunch, a green bag, a gate
A neighbour carries a bunch of matooke. A staff member in the yellow map shirt carries the green bag. The black gate of the house is behind them. The walk home is the ministry.
Food ministry
Rice, held close
A boy in an orange shirt holds a plate of rice and stew. The grin is the whole report.
Food ministry
A plate, a yellow dress, a grin
A girl in a yellow dress holds a plate of rice, chicken and greens. Food ministry is not a speech. It is a child who eats, and looks up.
Food ministry
The same kitchen, another child
A girl in a cream jumper holds her plate and looks straight at the camera. The queue at the gate is how a compound knows the house came.
Food ministry
Head down, eating
The work does not always wait for a photograph. Sometimes a child is already eating.