The Village is a group of monthly donors, generous and passionate people – people like you – who are coming together to invest in the future generations of Uganda. After all, it takes a village.
We are is stronger together, as the combined impact of monthly donations ensure that all Love Mercy Foundation projects continue to run month to month, and plans can be made to grow and improve throughout the year.
What could your impact look like?
As little as $30 a month can empower 12 women with a seed loan for the year. With an average of 6 children per household, you can impact over 80 lives in a single year. Even better, those 12 seed loans are returned from a portion of harvest at the end of the year and are given to new women joining the project.
Your tax-deductible gift continues to impact another 12 households the following year!
Become part of a caring community of monthly donors from all over the world making a real impact each month in the communities of northern Uganda.
Over the last 12 years, The Village has contributed to:
♥ Providing over 115,000 seed loans to households in northern Uganda as part of Cents for Seeds
♥ Supporting the Kristina Health Centre to enable over 68,000 patients to access primary medical care
♥ Drilling over 70 new water wells and repairing over 300 broken wells providing access to clean water
Stronger together. As the community continues to grow, the impact does too.
What to expect when you join The Village:
The Village newsletter delivered to your inbox every month. We have a strong relationship with our team on the ground in Uganda and like to catch up weekly to see what is happening. We will share some of these updates with you once a month, so you know exactly how your gift is changing lives in northern Uganda.
You’ll be the first to hear about anything new that is on our radar, whether it is exclusive access to events, new stories from the field or updates about when Eloise is speaking or holding a running event, and when Julius might be visiting.
Giving to something you believe in makes you feel good. When you give each month to Love Mercy projects, you know that your gift is going toward sustainably empowering communities in a way that will result in generational change. Every monthly gift over $2.00 is also tax-deductible, and you will receive a receipt each month.
As a signatory to the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) code of conduct and as a registered charity with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC), you can trust our team with your donations.
Our commitment is to the women in northern Uganda, to adapt and adjust when needed. We work to remain transparent with how your donations work to support this. You can read more about this on the Reports and Policies pages.
Meet The Village
“I love supporting Cents for Seeds. I love to know that the $30 a month that I donate is giving a woman and her family a hand up, not a hand out, and will on to benefit many others thanks to her hard work. I love the monthly stories that I get via email. I feel like I am making a real difference.”
"We decided to donate monthly partly because our lives have become quieter due to restrictions of COVID-19. We are not spending as much and it is a great time to do something meaningful with the extra money. Even if our lives hadn't become quieter we had begun talking about cutting back to give to those in need. We all spend more than we intent to on unnecessary items like coffees, buying cushions for the couch or impulse buying of items that end up sitting in cupboards or on shelves. We live very fortunately lives in Australia where we can work, get government assistance etc. This is something we should have done earlier. We are so glad we have started. We can change our decisions from the past but we can change them moving forward"
