Needs & Impact

Where your support goes.

Together, we make hope tangible — one child, one family, one community at a time.

Our Primary Goals

Raising Leaders

Our number one goal is to help raise children and partner with families to be faithful, honest men and women of integrity.

Creating Sustainability

We want to create sustainability through education and entrepreneurship for lasting change.

DREAMS. WISH LISTS. NEEDS.

Here are the specific areas where your support can make the greatest impact:

General Fund

This enables us to feed, provide clothes, give medical care and parent our children.

Any amount helps

United Care Medical Center

Surgical theatre: $15,500
Lab updates: $6,000
Guard quarters: $2,600
Patient scholarships: any amount
Ambulance: $9,000

The Heart

Fence repair: Urgent $3,500
Renovating damaged cement floors: $4,600

Sponsorships

Covers the cost of educating and boarding a child for a year

Primary: $500
Secondary: $900
Vocational/University: $1,500-$2,000

The Farm

We supplement our own food by growing maize, cassava, bananas and beans. We also rear pigs and goats.

Irrigation system: $3,500

Next Sustainable Project

Community Enrichment Resource Center: $17,000

LOL School

Legacy Dream Project. If we own our own school, we can help more impoverished children who are not sponsored.

Secondary and vocational school: $400,000

How to Give

Electronic Payments

Venmo, Zelle or FB Messenger Pay (Cari Matejka)

Automatic payments available via bank or Stripe ACH transfers

Check Payments

Checks Payable to: Literacy of Love

1405 Washington St.
Olean, NY 14760

Tax Exempt Status

Literacy of Love, Inc. is an exempt organization as described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code

FEATURED PROJECTS

NorthStar Tour and Travel

Literacy of Love has an exciting new business, an all-inclusive travel agency that tailors excursions in Uganda, NorthStar Tour and Travel. In an effort to build sustainability, it is not only managed by and employs our own well-trained graduates, it also generates income for Literacy of Love. NorthStar will manage all travel details. All you need to do is come….we'll take care of the rest! We will transform dreams into memories.

Visit NorthStar Tours

Community Tours

Meet the children of Literacy of Love at our Home, The Heart. Plan, organize and implement activities with our members. This is your chance to share love, friendship, and faith while creating memories which will last a lifetime.

Mission Trips

A mission trip is a journey of the heart. Our journey provides an opportunity to live love through action. What you'll receive is more than you can imagine. A mind stretched can never retain its original shape.

Educational Tours

Develop a bigger picture of the world by experiencing The Pearl of Africa first-hand. Learn about exotic and diverse new cultures, take a safari, raft the River Nile, tour the city, and witness rural village life.

Our Impact in Pictures

Children's Home

LoL members come to visit, build relationships, learn about God and virtues, and enjoy family. We counsel and empower children to be the change in their family history.

Farm

We grow maize, cassava, matoke, and pumpkin, and we rear pigs and goats. This fortifies our diet and earns money.

Maize Mill

Our mill earns money, provides employment, helps us grind food from our farm, and serves as a valuable community resource.

Serving Special Needs

We support children with special needs which include non-verbal, deaf, phsyical limitations and learning disabilities. We also support children who are HIV positive.

Supporting Families

We work with families to provide basic needs and education while teaching them their emotional role is essential.

Providing Education

We support families by assisting with basic needs and eduation. We also counsel them about their valuable, emotional role and raise children together.