WELCOME TO TENDER MERCIES
AIDSPIRIT USA is the support system for Tender Mercies—the home where vulnerable children in the Kayunga District find safety, love, and a chance to thrive. Here, you can explore where our story began, step inside daily life at Tender Mercies, and listen as the children share their experiences in their own voices. Every moment reflects the hope and healing your compassion makes possible.
We’ll continue adding new stories and updates, so check back often or sign up for notifications. And if your heart feels called to go deeper, volunteers with AIDSPIRIT USA can join our travel team and experience Tender Mercies firsthand.
WHERE IS THE KAYUNGA DISTRICT OF UGANDA?
Kayunga District is a district Central Uganda. It is named after its chief town, Kayunga. District headquarters Kayunga in lies approximately 74 kilometres (46 mi) northeast of Kampala. Check out this Google Map for more details
The demand for a larger space was immediately apparent with 19 children living in this small 2 room building which led the members of AIDSPIRIT who visited Uganda in 2009 to lobby friends, family, and others to build a new Tender Mercies home suitable to meet this need.
OUR FIRST HOME
ABOUT TENDER MERCIES HOME
Tender Mercies is now home to over 40 permanent children and multiple children who have been temporarily placed in our home by the local magistrate.
OUR NEW HOME
PROVIDING SAFETY
In 2015 the members of the Montana District Key Club raised the funds need to build a security fence around our Tender Mercies home. In building this fence, we have been able to provide a safe environment for our children to continue to grow and thrive in their educational endeavors.
AIDSpirit USA is in the midst of creating a permaculture farming project that will help our Tender Mercies Home attain agricultural sustainability. This project will include cows, pigs, chickens, fish, and other livestock which in addition to milk, meat and eggs will produce waste by-products to fertilize the more than 5,000 pineapples, 800 banana trees, hundreds of coffee plants, 2 acres of corn and other crops that we recently planted.
This permaculture project will also provide permanent employment for some of our developmentally challenged children as well as other children with a passion for farming.
Watch this video to learn more about what Permaculture means to Tender Mercies
SUSTAINABILITY and PERMACULTURE
WATER IS LIFE
Access to clean water plays an important role in enhancing our general well-being, alleviating poverty, fostering gender equality, and bolstering overall sustainability at Tender Mercies.
We've successfully established eight pristine water wells and restored six previously abandoned ones. This initiative has granted numerous individuals in neighboring communities the privilege of accessing clean, secure water, substantially improving their living conditions.
As our work continues to grow, so do the children we support. Our focus is long-term sustainability—built through our permaculture farm, expanding access to education, improving health resources with a special focus on sickle-cell anemia, as well as developing and maintaining dependable water sources for Tender Mercies and the surrounding community.
Many of the original children of Tender Mercies are now college-age, and we’re committed to helping them take their next steps. A key priority is finding sponsors who can support students at the university level, opening doors to independence, confidence, and bright futures.
AIDSPIRIT WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT TENDER MERCIES
INTERVIEWS
STUDENTS RECEIVING TUITION FROM AIDSPIRIT MEMBERS
KASI MOSES
MORRIS
DAVID
JOHN
HENRY
JOHNA JOWORI
ABU
SHARON
CHRISTINE
HELEN (AGOTE)
PHOTO ALBUM
