Its mercy alive Africa’s responsibility together with other organizations to mentor, guide and provide counseling to these street kids for a better conduct transformation. A 13 year old Ian Mutyaba one of the resident boys at mercy alive Africa has moved in with one of the families in Kivulu slums. Recently Ian's behaviors had changed to the worst! By moving out of the house and coming back at night without permission from the elders or even noticing his fellow resident friends, stealing money meant to purchase house requirements from the volunteer's  wallets

Ian was stealing because he used that money to buy food while in the slums on his escape routines, he had been attracted to start working by some street boys because he wanted to earn money they had also told him that he will not start school as promised by mercy Alive Africa staff, We are sure he believed this because he had spent three months waiting while at the house ( this is a minimal rehabilitation period for any street kid that is moved into the house, to observe his patience, conduct, willingness to study as efforts are being made to get him a sponsor).
Currently he has started living with Ismail's family a guy that runs a video game business as his attendant and promised to be paying him some money as salary, we had to agree because we respect these children's decisions and the community’s involvement in our work. However we will continue to monitor his conduct through our outreach programs in the slums.
Dear friends, we kindly ask you to pray for Mercy Alive Africa’s progress and Ian's well-being, hope that during his stay with this new family will improve his characters and escape the bad influence from the spoilt street boys, after one month we will be able to tell if his moving in with the new family has made some good impact on him.
Despite of this, one of the challenges is the influence and promises people make to these boys while on the streets and still when we move them into our shelter, so we find it very hard still since the people influencing them still go on to look for them and confuse their minds.

Reaching out to more street children in Kampala..
Mercy Alive Africa 26th/09/2015 Saturday Outreach Program:
With the aim to proclaim children from the streets of Kampala, Mercy Alive Africa uses several approaches to tackle this problem including the Saturday outreach program. Today’s outreach program started at exactly 7:00am in the morning when the street kids from the slums around Kampala were arriving at Katwe Primary School play-groundwhile the volunteers had started preparing the day’s activities starting with cooking.

It’s been a great experience even though there has been some obstacles, we are happy that the volunteers showed their good team work skills when moments such the water shortage in the area and the school teachers who had wanted to cancel the event,arose!
The event was graced with a prayer by one of the former street kid Ian who is currently under the care and support of Mercy Alive Africa shelter, activities such as playing soccer, games, washing clothes and bathing, bible class, medical care to the street kids, prayers followed as planed in the program.
It’s still sad and hurting to see many of the boys addicted to drugs and use aviation fuel, This makes it hard because many of them are very depressed and lonely. Many of them say “They use the drugs mainly to escape coldness and to feel stronger” we pray for the community to also come in on this.
Much thanks to our visiting friends from the United Kingdom Alice and Peter the time you have spent with these street kids is priceless and the words of wisdom have been encouraging and motivationalwe shall always pray for your kindness.
The gift of medical supplies have relieved the pain on their wounds, the remaining medical items will be used for the outreach programs.
On behalf of mercy alive Africa
Flavia
We Love Because God Loved Us First:

GOD IS OUR HERO.

Mercy Alive Africa’s 21st/09/2015 outreach program was simple and easy! Because it was prepared well and the experience turned out to be awesome to everyone including the volunteers, kids.

Around 7:00pm the team attended the live jazz music event at the national theatre after which the team went onto the streets looking for the street kids who sleep on the verandas at 11:00pm.

Fortunately Flavia found a group of street kids a few meters after Watoto church who were preparing for their night’s sleep, from the interactions between the street kids and the Mercy Alive Africa team,  a few boys opened up to the team and shared their horror testimonies of the streets.

As these discussions were taking place the team took interest in bringing back home one boy among these street kids called Ronald Ampeirwe who had ran away from his home in Fort portal 299 kilometers from Kampala, he had spent one month on the streets and Ronald was very ready to join Mercy Alive Africa home. Ronald told us about his painful life at home.

Ronald is now living with Mercy Alive Africa family and he is behaving relatively well.  Say a prayer for Ronald because he is having a terrible fever!

We are very thankful for each one of you our dear friends and thanks for all the prayers.

On behalf of Mercy Alive Africa Family.

God bless you all.

ANOTHER SLUM OUTREACH.

Mercy Alive Africa and its entire team would like to send their love greetings to you all our friends. We thank everyone who takes time to come and spend time with the boys. We pray and hope you have a fruitful weekend.
We are thankful for all the testimonies, hopes and desires the group has and we pray and look forward for more.
With more than 3500 street kids in kampala, its among Mercy alive Africa prograns to visit children on the streets of kampala with a purpose of providing counselling, play some games and discuss their possible chances of being enrolled in to the home and resettle many other children.

Today we met , talked and played some games like soccer with the boys in the slums.
We had group discussions, one on one sessions by the volunteers and the boys and it is so amazing to see a few boys are ready to be resettled back with their families as others want to come to the shelter.
"Take your faith to the streets, was a statement on one of the street kid's tshirt" And it was a good time for we discussed it with the boys.
We thank you all for your prayers.
God bless you.