How it began

A Facebook message in May 2024.

  • Isaac Muwewesi friended Max Alston on Facebook in July 2020.
  • In May 2024 he asked Max to start a GoFundMe for him.
  • Max asked: What do you need?
  • That is when we found out he was caring for 100 orphans.
  • We decided to help!
  • Isaac is 33, a pastor, and the sales manager of a motorcycle shop in Jinja.
Pastor Isaac Muwewesi and his wife Nantale Esther
Pastor Isaac and his wife, Nantale Esther.
Nantale Esther with Asobola Precious and Walisa Presicar
Esther with Precious, 2, and Presicar, 6. Elim Max, 3 months, is at home.
What we found

This is what the children were sleeping on.

Where the children slept in 2024: mats and clothes on a bare floor
2024. The picture Isaac sent.
The dormitory today: rows of bunk beds
The dormitory today.
  • Today every child who lives at the school has a bed and a foot locker of their own.
  • Three meals a day.
The school

A school that had already failed once.

  • The building was Royal Park School. It closed because the families around it could not afford the fees, and stood empty for three years.
  • He Is Worthy rented it in January 2024 and bought it in May 2026. It is Great Love Junior Academy now.
  • 494 children attend. 140 of them sleep there.
  • The boys sleep in one of the seven classrooms — there is no boys’ dormitory yet.
The flyer for Royal Park Junior School, the school that closed
Royal Park Junior School’s own flyer, before it closed.
The school grounds today, with the Great Love Junior Academy sign at the gate
Bought in May 2026 — 4.2 acres at Kauma. Surveyed, titled, ours.

The school today →

The choir

Listen to what they are singing.

George Musoke and the choir he and board member Ann McCarty started this year. These are all orphans — singing about being adopted. The words are on the film.Song: “I Am Adopted” · Majesty Music · majestymusic.com →
February 2026

We went to see for ourselves.

  • On our first day in Uganda, Pastor Isaac asked if we would go and see an area that was not on our schedule. We went.
  • What Pastor Isaac had not told us was that he had sent 48 of the children from that village to Great Love Junior Academy, so they could eat and get an education their parents could not afford.
  • We met Julius and Mary Auma that day. Both families were living in mud houses.
  • Both are now in houses of their own, built and paid for.
  • We think God was softening our hearts that day, and preparing us for what He was going to do.
“We have put the spring of water amidst the wilderness. Our village is seeing the school as a prayer answered.”
Pastor Isaac Muwewesi