We provide beds where we can, help families keep a house, and step in on rent when the landlord is at the door.
Eviction is a quiet disaster in Kampala’s ghettos. When a donor is able, Mercy For Life Africa steps in on rent, on a bed, and on keeping a family housed. We cannot house a city. We can keep a mother and her children from sleeping on the street this month — and we do it without turning their crisis into content.
From the field
Every photograph and film here can be recaptioned, re-ordered, or moved to another ministry from the staff desk.
Beds, houses & rent
Two staff in branded shirts stand on a building site among stacked timber. Shelter ministry is slow: a plot, a roof, a locked door, a family that does not sleep in the yard this month.
Beds, houses & rent
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.
Beds, houses & rent
A man in blue overalls sets a timber ladder against the skeleton of a new room. Building is slow. Children are already waiting to sit inside it.
