A church on the edge of a slum.
Impact Fund is a community ministry of Kampala Central Seventh-day Adventist Church, on Gadaffi Road in Makerere. Right next to the church is Kivulu — a densely populated low-income neighbourhood where most families live below the poverty line, and where the church has worked for years.
The programme started with a few church members noticing how many of the children who turned up at the gate were hungry, out of school, or both. We began with a Sabbath meal. Today it's grown into five connected programmes — feeding, schooling, the children's chapel, health camps, and a mothers' workshop — but it still runs from the church compound, with church volunteers, on a small budget.
