Literacy of Love, Inc. (LoL) was started by founder and CEO Cari Matejka. Cari traveled to Uganda in 2012. Her heart and mind were captured after her visit to a village school. Over the years, she developed a personal relationship with many children, and she took an active part in ensuring many were provided for and remained in school. She couldn’t unlearn their difficulties and great needs, and that weight of responsibility paired with her deep love is what motivated her to create Literacy of Love in 2016. Cari travels to Uganda as one of the parents of over 60 children and lives in the children’s home, Home of the Heart, LoL maintains. On a daily basis, she communicates, counsels, and manages the members of her home, Family of the Heart, and she manages directly with leaders there. There is no middle person – it’s direct. Although Family of the Heart members come from diverse backgrounds and beliefs, Ugandan culture and Cari both value faith. In America, Cari is an active member of her church. She has spoken as a guest at various organizations about her missions as well as preached at a few partnering churches both in the states and abroad.
