Mercy Centre

One By One is opening its first ever Mercy Centre in Jinja, Uganda in 2025. The centre will provide a sanctuary of hope and rehabilitation for girls who have been trafficked and exploited into sex trafficking, domestic servitude or forced labour.

Dedicated professionals will support the girls and help them overcome the trauma and pain they have experienced. The Mercy Centre will house up to 20 girls at one time.

They will stay in the centre for approximately three months, receive counselling, care and be trained in various skills before being reintegrated into their families and the wider community.

The Mercy Centre is named following the tragic rape and murder of a three-year-old girl named Mercy near to our safe house in Pakistan.

Mercy was born into slavery, working in bonded labour in brick kilns with her mother. Following this awful incident, we knew we had to do something and plans for the Mercy Centre were established.

We believe this will be the first of several Mercy Centres across the world.

Can you help us as we continue to raise one year’s running costs – £250k ($320k) – so we can open for Mercy in 2025. Some of our costs include:

£25 ($40) – provides clean clothes for a trafficking survivor.
£100 ($130) – educates a girl for three months.
£350 ($500) – funds a life skills course.
£1,000 ($1,300) – covers the entire Centre’s food bill for one month.
£5,000 ($7,500) – pays the year’s salary of a counsellor.