WELCOME TIMOTHY.
We are happy to have Timothy join other boys at the house. Timothy is 8years old and he has been on the streets for three months. Just like other street kids, he has gone through a lot such as sleeping on a hungry stomach, coldness, police raids and getting beaten.
we are glad that Timothy is off the streets now and he has a place to call home.
We thank God for his protection and guidance.
God bless you all.

Hello Friends.
A very blessed weekend from Mercy Alive Africa to you all of you our friends.
we want to thank you for all your prayers for the children.
Psalm 23King James Version (KJV)...
23 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
Have a blessed weekend and God bless you all.

Another special outreach,
This is mainly done for two special children with a purpose to get to know exactly the kind of person problems they go through and see of how best to help them. This allows us to spent a lot of time with them and hear from them.
Two of these boys have been in homes before, And by that time, they were still more taken by the street life and when these children are taken by street life ,they usually need a lot of time to understand and see the dangers ...of living on the streets and in the slums.
Usually when the boys are ready to go into a home, they go and reach the different uncles and aunties and ask them to refer or enroll them in homes and when that time comes most of them usually just have a few things to work on.

The boys' mainly challenges is substance abuse, coldness because of the heavy rains and many of the boys stand a high chance of getting pneumonia among others,being arrested and beaten by the Police during the night. Two of these boys Allan and Pandol(Isma) have been arrested. The police does surprise raids and ties their hands with ropes. This is all because of the fact that there many gang of thieves in the slums and on the streets. These kids are easy target since they sleep and stay in the areas where the gangs stay and do most of the drug taking. we kindly ask you to remember the boys in your prayers.
Thank you.

 

This is a picture of how the boys are raided by the police.

 

 

 

 

Allan and Pandol.  They all want to go back to school.

Hello Friends,
We are very thankful for which ever person takes time to come and share with the boys. Talking to the boys greatly helps them to understand their abilities, how best to improve themselves, and work hard in everything.
Thank you Uncle Lawrence for spending time at the house and talking to the boys.

 Happy week to everyone from Mercy Alive

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 some of the drawing done by the boys

the boys'  Fine art

Another slum outreach.
We are very excited to share with you the great news from the last week's special outreach with a few boys.
we do special outreaches basically to meet some boys who need much time,help and establishing a closer relationship with them so that it is easy for us to see the best way we can try help them and re-unite them with their families.

We encourage resettlements that way its easy for the boys to re- connect with their families because it is vital for children to know who they are and where they belong and family is the best for every child.
some boys are still having challenges and are not willing to go home and we just pray and hope they can accept to be resettled and that the resettlements can work out.

This is Allan, and we are very happy to share with you all, that Allan opened up and would love us to resettle him back with his parents.
we pray for Allan as he asked us for more time so as to be ready on the November 16th because it is the date he asked us to resettle him back with his family.
thank you all for your prayers.

Habbia and Regan talking. It is so amazing to see so many people try to come up and share with the boys.

Regan and Abdul enjoying a Meal.

This is Ian, a boy we introduced to you a few months and weeks back who is back to the streets, we managed to find him and continued to speak to him to see how best we can help him.
Ian still needs prayers so as to open up and be able to learn how to respect and obey his elders.
That picture was taken from a place where he works and earns some money to buy him a meal.
from the simple talk we had from him, we realized Ian enjoys the streets and he is still young and unaware of how bad the streets are because he manages to buy himself food and the influence so many people put in him which we can not explain to him in one day to understand and we ask you all to kindly say prayers for him and for God to guide us and show us the best way of how to help Ian.
Thank you.

Hello Friends,
we are very excited to share with you the great joy we all felt after having known that Benjamin is doing his senior four Examinations.
We are very thankful to God for enabling his Dad forgive him and welcoming him and accepting to put him in school.

Thank you so much for all the prayers.

Hello Friends.
we are very happy to share with you what happens in the lives of the boys.
Thanks to Uncle Lawrence and Aunt Mary for the time they spent with the boys last week.
Spending time with the boys helped us learn them more and see how best we can help them achieve their dreams and to teach them how to behave and conduct themselves in society.

we are glad that the boys are transform and behaving well.
Thank you for the prayers.

Meeting with Habiba (Kitante High School)
Flavia and Richard yesterday visited Kitante Hill High School, Flavia and Abdul’s old school. It was a great experience to witness how old girls and boys connect with their former school’s administration in support for the children in poor communities.
Habiba an old girl of the school too, expressed a great interest on behalf of the school Administration to work with mercy alive Africa in giving care and support to street children in Kampala. Soon next week Habiba who is a member of the school administration will visit mercy alive Africa shelter in Nankulabye, have a slum visit to the areas of Kivulu and Makerere to witness the work already done by mercy alive Africa and other NGOs in the slums plus the current situation of the children on the streets of Kampala.
Afterwards the two parties will work on a plan which will connect the school to the community through mercy alive Africa activities, more of this plan will be discussed in our report and newsletters soon.
Habiba thank you so much for inviting mercy alive Africa volunteers visit Kitante High School and to discuss with you the organizations plans to work with such institutions. Your ideas were so positive and hope to work with you and the Kitante High School in future for the better of our nation Uganda.

Abdul Salaam:
Abdul is 15 years old, he became a resident of mercy alive Africa shelter in August 2014 after being picked from Kivulu slums during the outreach activities. He had fever and physical wounds on his body especially on the legs which were dressed. Abdul used to move barefooted to collect scrap.
While at mercy Alive Africa shelter, Abdul was interested in drawing and reading plus playing football, after observing his characters, he was re-united with his family in April 2015 at Kasubi a suburb of Kampala city.
Immediately started his studies at Kasubi Primary school in Primary four, Mercy Alive Africa volunteers always visited Abdul at both his home and at school to make sure that he is well and enjoys school.
Unfortunately during the previous second term holidays, his aunt at home started abusing him which involved beatings and verbal assaults, Abdul run away from their home and went back to the streets in Kivulu slums which are just three kilometers away from their home in Kasubi, we met Abdul again during our recent outreach programs and shared his stories with the volunteers he has since then expressed his great interest to go back to school and meet with his family but efforts to be done to persuade his aunt to love and care for him as a child.

Mercy Alive Africa’s staff (Flavia and Richard) yesterday (10th/10/2015) evening met with Mr. Simon Iga a Kampala music mistral who shared and provided ideas of starting a music program with the street boys at the shelter. It was a great experience to learn of new ways of having the boys learn a new skill in music which could occupy the organization’s education and vocational skills service to the street boys, a lot more of this meeting/minutes will be discussed in our next news issue a few days from now.