THANK YOU HOLLY JOHNSON. Mercy Alive Africa is delighted again to extend its Godly and warm greetings to you. We are also grateful and appreciative for Holly Johnson a volunteer from Canada who has spent time with the boys at the shelter every Thursday and Friday. The day she stated volunteering at MAA, she brought with her the spirit of hard work, self-motivation and self-driven, although having come from totally a different culture and background, she quickly dived in the new culture with all its challenges and birthed a new spirit of servant hood. She has been working in places and areas where she could easily fall sick, despite all these threatening circumstances; she did her best to cope up. We are thankful for the devotions and Art classes you had with the boys at the house, because we believe each of every lesson you have had with the boys has been positive in their lives and brought a change in their lives through encouragements and at the same time giving us a chance to hear from the boys and see how and where they see themselves in the years to come. We thank you very much Holly and we cannot wait to have you back. God bless you!.

A THANK YOU MESSAGE TO OUR VISITOR AND FRIEND FROM ENGLAND. Mercy Alive Africa is delighted again to extend its Godly and warm greetings to you. The Ministry takes it to its heart always to keep you updated on what is happening here on ground so that everyone is on the same page with us about life of the ministry and the latest progress. We are very glad to welcome Alice Caisley , a friend of Mercy Alive Africa from way back when we had just started, and has supported and helped us in many different ways. Alice visited the transitional house and spent time with the boys which was very encouraging for every one. We did a number of activities which were all aimed at engaging the boys and these included music, youth talks and Bible study which is the most important aspect in the lives of the boys. We are grateful and thankful for the time, we have spent with Alice and thank you for what you do for the boys everyday.

ALICE VISITS OUR PRIMARY BOYS. Samuel and Wycliff are our boys who are in primary seven this year, they are among the second group of boys to be in our transitional house. Ever since they joined us , Both Samuel and Wycliff showed us that they were ready to learn,obey and learning to start a new life. They were demoted to primary / form five, despite of their age, Wyciff accepted to study and he is the head boy of the school and one of the best in mathematics. We pray and hope for the best results after they do their National primary leaving Examinations. We are glad that Alice got to visit them at school, it is very encouraging for the boys to know on how much they are loved. Together as a team and the boys, we all are thankful for the many amazing and wonderful things Alice has done for the boys at the transitional house.

OUR STREET PROGRAM. Over past few weeks, we haven’t been able to give you updates about this specific program. Our heart as a ministry is that, looking at the boys we don’t see them as community problem in which they reside, we look at them in a constructive angle, help them to discover themselves, help them realise how potentially useful, they can be and supporting them to start a life. As a team working with such attitude on our minds, we were able to have a successful program; however, we are very thankful to our Lord God for providing us safety and a conducive environment, which gives us a room for a fun and more talks to be carried out. We are very grateful for, everyone standing with us in the campaign of transforming their live. Thanks from management.

Greetings to you all our precious and wonderful friends around the world, we believe that Our God will surely give you a wonderful weekend. Today we are delighted to share with you on how the boys are and what they are learning at the shelter. We thank God’s for his provision and for protecting the boys. We are also grateful and appreciative for Holly Johnson a volunteer from Canada who spends time with the boys at the shelter every Thursday and Friday. We are thankful that she is willing to come and share with the boys and teach them about God and also showing them how ART can be used to express their feelings through drawing among others. Thank you Holly Johnson and we welcome you to Mercy Alive Africa. We also give credit to those who talk to the boys who they meet on the streets, in taxi parks and on roads and find out how they live and survive, know what many of them go, every single word and advice counts.

Children's bibles, story books and Christian Teen Literature. Hoping that all is well with you, we would like to send you our heartfelt greetings to you, as we also wish you a productive week ahead. Today, we post while giving thanks to God first and to all of you, whom He has used to love, support and care about the street children. We appreciate and acknowledge our friend Alice Caisley for loving the boys and thank you for donating many Christian boys to us every single time. Sharing the love and hope of Christ is the mission of MAA. Every street outreach program includes a Bible story time and every evening at the shelter we have a Bible study every evening. Literacy is an essential part of the lives of our boys in the shelter. At the moment we are reading ‘’ GROWING UP GOD’S WAY FOR BOYS’’. In this book, various topics are talked about especially how to handle and deal with the puberty and adolescence (Teen age) in a Godly way.

Ways and how prayer has helped in the transform of the boys! Prayer is communication or a conservation many of us have with God every single day in our lives. It is very vital for every person to spare time and pray for ourselves and other people such as our families, friends among others. It is worthy to note that, for the period we have been with them, we have truly seen a significant impact of Prayer made on their lives amidst hard life they face both on the streets during day and night and also were they live in, stay and play from. We are very happy that every day we spend and meet the boys we pray with them and we have seen so many miracles, prayer has brought in their lives, it has transformed many boys who were so worse and at first it seemed like the boys themselves could not see change but still they prayed for many challenges that they go through such as drug use, aviation fuel, fighting/violence among others. We report now that such bad behaviors have to a great extent reduced amongst them. The above is what we always pray for, to see children grow up with values and hearts of love as one desired by Jesus Christ, We share with them. By continuing to do what we are doing both during street outreaches, at the shelter and when we meet one on one, we hope to see bigger cycles being broken, we dream and see us being able to support many of these children be in schools and learn like other children across the world. We aim at supporting many of them grow physically, emotionally and spiritually by way of receiving from our balanced programs which are well researched and thought of by our committed staffs who have served both this organization and God ‘s children with love. Whatever milestone, this ministry is currently enjoying, it cannot go without the mention and appreciation every single person who has ever prayed and donated so as to support the boys. Thank you, Let’s continue praying for our friends ,street children and our families.

Thank you Douglas Dubois Sebamala. . We would like to thank Douglas Dubios Sebamala for sparing time and visit us at Mercy Alive Africa particularly at the shelter, we appreciate your effort and strength that you managed to visit us despite your busy schedule. Douglas Dubious Sebamala is an actor in a television series called Second chance on NTV and he is called Simon in that series, also a poet, a dancer and he is an old boy (that is he was in the same school with Aunt Flavia in Kitante Hill School 2008-2011). It was such an honor to meet and seen him in person, hear from him on how he made from the school acting to the TV, National theatre among other places. He encouraged the boys on their dreams, hopes and talents and how best to work on them and in this discussion he advised them one on one which was nice because they all spoke of what they enjoy doing and what lights them. We pray and hope Wycliffe can achieve his dream of being a dancer and an engineer, Samuel to be a doctor and Kenneth an agriculturalist and these are all important professionals in the world because each is vital in its way to our communities. Douglas Dubios Sebamala went further and promised to take the boys to watch a play or drama acting at National theatre which will be the first time for the boys to sit and watch a play in the theatre. We look forward to that. Thank you Douglas Dubious Sebamala and Mark for visiting and spending time with us at the shelter. From the management.

"There is nothing impossible for God," ~He said! Samuel has aspirations of becoming a doctor. Despite knowing this is going to require a lot of hard work he is willing to do what it takes. For this young man, the future is bright. We don’t just believe in him, we are very expectant of what is to come for him and cannot wait to watch his journey unfold. We believe that the best is still yet to come for Samuel.

Thankful to God for the street children!
We send you our heartfelt greetings to you all and we would like to wish you a blessed new week in the Mighty and strength of the Lord God, We bless His name and all He is doing in our lives and the lives of the street boys we minister too every day.
With countless support from our dear friends and supporters ,prayer friends, our quality and dedications to serve these boys has never been comprised and the results for our commitment has been able to make this ministry an ever growing organization working with boys on streets to get off Kampala streets, by the use of simple activities such playing football games, showering and washing on the program, conducting praise and worship, sharing of our personal testimonies, Bible study, having lunch with the boys and listening to their needs, has strengthened our relationship with the boys and has effectively grown into major changes in their lives.

We are very grateful to God for transforming the boys we have in the shelter and those we have resettled back to their families. It is noted that many re-settlements usually fail and this makes many of the boys return to the streets of Kampala.
We proud to share with you about our current boys in the house who are have transformed and are all in school and we hope and pray that God continues to change them.
Special thanks to all of you who pray for us.
God bless you all.

OUR RECONCILIATION PROGRAM.
We are grateful that our reconciliation program is underway and it has kicked off on good grounds. So far those that have been driven back to their guardians; we have kalanda Steven who received a warm welcome from his Aunt. We first resettled Kalanda Steven in 2014 after finding his relatives in Entebbe, with various discussions with family; we managed to resettle Steven who among all the children we have resettled has stayed with his family for a full year.

However Steven again ran away from home again this past September and this required us as a team to re-do our meeting up, calling of his family, searching for him on streets and offering more counseling to Kalanda Steven. We are very glad and happy that we worked together with kalanda Steven’s doctors and counselor from one of the most recognized and respected HIV/AIDS hospital in Entebbe and they suggested ideas which are all for the best of Steven’s health and we are very happy that we are all going to assist Steven in the best we all can.
On the other hand we kindly request to remember Steven in your prayers as he starts on the new line of medication. We feel the need to celebrate this achievement because all the mixed feelings between the boy and his family (Relatives) were all discussed at the transitional house, It was all joy and happiness to receive them as members of the family and we are all the family is willing to work with us including his doctors and we continue to pray for Kalanda Steven.
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As MAA (Mercy Alive Africa) continues to meet immediate needs of the vulnerable children, we are also doing our best to change the perceptions of the community and more especially to those where these children come from. Congratulations to our boys Kalanda Steven who accepted to reconcile with their family. We are very proud of the decision you made, thus this is a good example to the rest of the other boys.

Fundraising by the Dusk Run.

We would like to thank the Dusk Run Team Alice and Peter Caisley) for the hard work and efforts they have put in, so as to make the Concert happen.
THANK YOU so much to everyone who came to our gig at Surfcafe Tyne mouth last night - we raised almost £200 (if you'd like to help us reach the £200 landmark send us a message!) for Mercy Alive Africa. That is over 840,000 Ugandan Shillings, that will go to provide, food, clothing and education for street children in Uganda.
Here a few snaps from the gig.

The Fundraising by the Dusk Run.

We would like to thank the Dusk Run Team Alice and Peter Caisley) for the hard work and efforts they have put in, so as to make the Concert happen.
THANK YOU so much to everyone who came to our gig at Surfcafe Tyne mouth last night - we raised almost £200 (if you'd like to help us reach the £200 landmark send us a message!) for Mercy Alive Africa. That is over 840,000 Ugandan Shillings, that will go to provide, food, clothing and education for street children in Uganda.
Here a few snaps from the gig.

      
 THANKING GOD FOR HIS LOVE AND TRANSFORMATION IN THE LIVES
                                       OF THE STREET CHILDREN.
Disapproving the community that not all street children are wrong people in our communities, but once given attention and quality amount of time and patience they are as good as other people.
So many people in our society have come up in the open to regard most street boys as the bad boys of the community because of problems associated with them or because of the history behind their life styles.
For example there are people who are often heard saying that they will never want to know what goes on in the lives of these boys, in some other cases the situation is made to look ugly by how often they are being rounded up by law enforcers of the city or police and taken into solitary confinement.
Mercy Alive Africa has however; grown and worked with these children for now more than six years and our story about them is way different. Our expression while working in them and the approach which is purely preaching to them about the power of God to change human beings has helped them to discover themselves.
By the time we entered into their areas( That is where they sleep and spend most of their time) there were a lot of discontentment and high cases of indiscipline of all manner, and we began to use the knowledge of the bible as a major element that was going to uproot some of these cases. This is because many people acquired knowledge of how to handle and deal with street children were not yielding desired change we needed to see in these boys until we introduced them weekly preaching and other activities like feeding them lunch and having sports and games whenever we do an outreach . All these programs are to help the boys to unite, communicate and allow us to reach out to them the best we can.
Our simplicity of being approachable has made most of them to share their personal struggles of life where our team have been willing to listen to their unending story tells and have offered word of wisdom and conducted counseling, today we are glad to say that the Lord has been good for the so many transformations taking place in these boys, On various programs,we have shared testimonies many street children who are in school and some resettled back with their families, other boys are now working, previously you may have observed that one of the boy managed to get a sponsor and we are happy that He is in school.
It is because of such noticeable changes in these boys, Mercy Alive Africa stands to thank the God for having used it to disapprove the beliefs of so many people about the image of the street boys in their own society.
We take special moments to thank our strong beloved Friends, who have walked a journey while encouraging us, supporting us in everything which is a big percentage in helping us change the communities and see the transformation of various children.
May the God bless the team and everyone who prays for the street children.
Thanks from management

OUTREACH.
Josselyn is 13 years old we met her during an outreach in kivulu. Joselyn asked the team to go meet her mother and hear her story.
Joselyn lives with her mother and her three siblings in the slums of kivulu. Josselyn's Mother started living in the slums a few years back and had all her children in the slums of kivulu.
Her mother feeds her children through selling of Irish potatoes, Most times it is hard for her because, they usually have to feed on what is usually brought for business and hence making it hard to raise money to put her children in school. This business gives her the capability to feed her children, however it can not allow her to pay her children in school.
The mother to Joselyn requested the Team to help put Joselyn in school again. We are glad that Josselyn is in school and we pray all her dreams come true.
Through our outreaches, we are glad that we are able to meet many children like Joselyn and we hope to share and pray with as many children God brings in our lives.
Thank you for your prayers.

VISITING DAVID IN KIBOGA.
David is one of the resettled children. He is aged 13 years and we are very happy that he is doing well and learning a lot. David is in primary three and his dream is to be a Doctor.
His parents are very happy that he is improving and learning. Change for many children takes a very long time. We thank God for his power for changing the boys.
we pray for continuous change in him.
Thank you for your prayers.

David's family. His parents

Many street children use or are addicted to using the avaition fuel. The avaition fuel can cause mental instability,weakening of the immunity system,affects their reasoning ability, lose of appetite and weak.
Many of the street children snifing the avaition fuel using bottles, small cloth among others.
The use of the avaition fuel hinders a number of programs that we do, such as resettlement since many of the children became addicted and it is hard for them to stop.
say a prayer for the street children who are battling with the addiction.
God bless you.

OUTREACH IN KATWE SLUM.
we usually meet many street children on our way from home or town and different places.
On monday we met Muzafaru( a boy who has stayed on the streets for quite a few years).
In 2014 we had taken Muzafaru in the transitional house however he was not ready and he run away and we saw him Muzafaru shared with his us what is happening in his life now.
He collects empty water bottles and scrap to earn some money for food, he is uses drugs some times in the nights.
The slum of katwe( Basically near the Railway line is filled with drugs addicts and its a hiding place for some many street children which means that many of these children will learn and use drugs while in the katwe slums because they see other boys and men using them.
It is very sad that the people( elder people sell these drugs to the children and there is no way we can try stop due to the influence they have in society) .
we continue to kindly request you pray for the street children and the various orphans.
we would like to have Muzafaru back to the shelter after a few months of constant talking to him and encouraging him.
Thank you so much for your prayers

TEAM WORK AT HOUSE....
Its great joy when the boys do house work together and learn from each other.
This makes the program of resettlement since the boys learn how to do house work and assocaite with others which many parents want their children to have.

Thank youfor your prayers.

    The story of Samuel.

Samuel is a humble boy, who socializes with the other boys at the house. Samuel is 12 years old and currently he is living in the Mercy Alive Shelter.
Samuel was raised by his Grandmother in Kira after his Mother died. Samuel ran away from home with a hope of finding a job of selling eggs in Kampala because his grandmother could not provide for him and his brother Enock. Samuel was on the streets for a couple of months and we got to find Samuel during the police raids. The police usually does raids and arrests many street children. We managed to visit Samuel’s grandmother after we got Samuel from the police station.
Samuel’s grandmother tries to support his grandkids by selling tomatoes and onions which can only provide lunch or dinner depending on which meal they chose to eat. They can hardly sustain a single meal in a day let alone afford other basic needs. Because of that, we decided to take Samuel to the Mercy Alive shelter, that way his Grandmother stays with his Enock.
Samuel had stopped to study since his grandmother could not afford the school fees and we are happy that next week, Samuel will be doing a school interview and he will start school in a month. Currently he is living under Mercy Alive shelter.
His favourite subject is social studies and he wants to become a mechanic. Samuel believes. that fixing is a good way to bring things back to life. He loves playing football,

Samuel.

Samuel, Enock and their grandmother.

 Samuel and his brother Enock.

Enock, Aunt Flavia, Samuel and their grandmother.