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