Staff, visiting volunteers and children on the porch of the Mercy For Life Africa house in Makindye

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.

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Sponsor a child

Walk with one learner the way Father Dominique walked with Fausta — fees, visits, a name, a future.

Start a sponsorship

Build Mercy School

Five acres in Zigoti Town Council, Mityana, wait for a bigger school. Give toward construction, or write to the house about the campus.

See the campus plan

Volunteer

Teach a trade, sit in counselling, pack food, rehearse with the choir, or help us host a visitor from abroad.

Offer your time

Partner

Churches, schools, and organisations — from Makindye to Idaho — already stand with us. Bring yours.

Become a partner

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.

Ross Hoffman stands with two schoolchildren and Mercy For Life Africa staff outside an office door painted with the organisation map — 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.

Mercy For Life Africa staff and visiting volunteers smile together in a sunny courtyard beside a black water tank — Partners & volunteers
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.

Mercy For Life-Africa poster showing two schoolchildren holding handwritten letters beside a map of the organisation’s work in Uganda — Partners & volunteers
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.

Mercy For Life Africa staff and visiting friends smile together under a mango tree in a Kampala courtyard — Partners & volunteers
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.

A visiting volunteer stands with a smiling schoolgirl outside the Mercy For Life Africa office — Partners & volunteers
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.

Nalubega Fausta smiles beside a Catholic sister in a blue habit on a dirt road — Partners & volunteers
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.

Schoolchildren crowd around a smiling visitor on the steps of Mercy School — Partners & volunteers
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.

Nalubega Fausta and a visiting volunteer take a selfie with Mercy School children in a dusty yard — Partners & volunteers
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.

A teenage girl named Olive sits beside a smiling visitor — Partners & volunteers
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.

A visiting friend dressed as Santa sits with a smiling child holding a bundle of clothes at Mercy For Life Africa — Partners & volunteers
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.

Nalubega Fausta laughs in a chapel while a visiting friend in a Mercy For Life Africa shirt stands at a small altar — Partners & volunteers
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.

Staff, visiting volunteers and children stand on the porch of the Mercy For Life Africa house in Makindye under the painted name — Partners & volunteers
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.

A visiting teenage volunteer stands with his arm around a smiling Mercy School girl in a colourful shirt — Partners & volunteers
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.

A visiting family sit with Mercy School children in front of an office door decorated with Mercy Schools stars — Partners & volunteers
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.

A visiting volunteer sits on a courtyard with two smiling Mercy School girls in orange uniforms — Partners & volunteers
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.

A visiting volunteer is hugged by four smiling Mercy School children in orange uniforms — Partners & volunteers
The same afternoon, more arms
Four Mercy School children in orange crowd a visiting friend. The courtyard is loud. The work is this close.

A visiting volunteer stands with two girls in front of a mural of Jesus at the Mercy For Life Africa gate — Partners & volunteers
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.

There is more than one way to stand with Makindye.

Give

Sponsor a child

Build Mercy School

Volunteer

Partner

Partners already in the yard.

Ross Hoffman at the house

Friends who came to see

Together, we can change lives

Friends under the mango tree

At the office door

Walking with the sisters

The children found her first

In the schoolyard

Olive and a friend of the house

Santa at the house

A laugh in the chapel

The porch that says the name

A visiting friend, a child of the house

A family at the office door

Orange uniforms, a visitor on the tiles

The same afternoon, more arms

Under the mural of mercy