About us
A generation of empowered women, empowering others
A God-given vision: women who lack nothing in wisdom or skill, raising their own families and lifting their neighbors out of the same wilderness they came from.
Statement of faith
Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life
Our name comes from John 14:6. We believe every broken life finds its way home through Jesus Christ.
In John 4, Jesus crossed into Samaria to meet one rejected woman at a well, a woman others avoided. He saw her, spoke with her, and gave her living water. We see the same story in Jinja today. Women the city treats as outsiders are, to the Father, precious. We exist to tell them so, in word and in deed.
“Jesus answered, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.’”
John 14:6
“Whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst… it will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
John 4 · the woman at the well
History & roots
From one gate to a registered ministry
2015
A knock at the gate
Five tired, hungry Karamojong women in torn clothes knock on a gate in Jinja looking for food and water. They are welcomed, fed, and invited back.
2015–2017
A weekly Bible study takes root
Word spreads through the Walukuba Masese slums. One meal becomes a weekly fellowship of worship, the Word, food, and friendship, a sanctuary for women with nowhere else to turn.
2018
Registered as a Community Based Organization
To give the work lasting structure, Women of the Way registers as a Community Based Organization in Jinja.
Today
A thriving spiritual sanctuary
80 to 90 women, 300 children, and 30 teenage girls gather every week, alongside income projects, school sponsorships, and a growing vision for land, shelter, and food security.
Who we serve
The Karamojong of Jinja
The Karamojong are a pastoralist people from north-eastern Uganda. Drought, hunger, and insecurity push many families to cities like Jinja, where they meet language barriers, prejudice, and exclusion from work. Denied dignified jobs, many mothers and children survive by begging and scavenging. They are among the most marginalized people in East Africa, and among the most precious to God.
Origin
Barriers
Language, prejudice, exclusion from work and services
Reality
Mothers and children surviving by begging on Jinja’s streets
Leadership
Led by people who know the wilderness
Mercy and Paul serve from a story that looks a lot like the women who knock on the gate.
Mercy Nika Kasadha
Founder & Director
A Kenyan who survived a childhood of extreme poverty and domestic terror, and lost both parents to HIV/AIDS. In 2003, as a high-school student, she saw a vision of a heartbroken woman in a black hijab and was called to restore her. Every woman who walks through the gate is that woman. Mercy’s life is proof that God makes streams in the wasteland.
Paul Federico Kasadha
Co-Founder · Worship Pastor · Music Producer
Paul serves alongside his wife Mercy, leading worship that fills the fellowship with hope and producing music that carries the message of restoration. Together they anchor the ministry’s spiritual life and its day-to-day work in Jinja.
Financial accountability
Honest about our gaps. Faithful with every gift.
Transparency honors God and our partners. These are the gaps we are praying and working to close.
Medical Support
Expanding our basic first-aid program to address chronic diseases common in the slums — malaria, infections, malnutrition-related illness — among women and children with no access to care.
Education Funds
Over 150 children are currently waiting for school sponsorships — every sponsorship keeps a child off dangerous streets and out of the dustbins where many now scavenge for food.
Land & Infrastructure
Seeking funding to purchase agricultural land for long-term food security, and to build a safe-house shelter for vulnerable teenage girls at risk of exploitation.
Administrative & Staffing Support
Funding for trained social workers and for local director families who sustain daily operations in a harsh environment — the hands and feet behind every program.
Our commitment: Women of the Way Ministries Uganda is a registered Community Based Organization (since 2018). Funds are received through accountable channels, applied directly to the programs above, and reported back to partners with photos, receipts and stories from the ground in Jinja.
Help us bridge the gap
Every need above has a face, a name, and a story. Choose one to stand in, and watch God make a way.