Save Sunshine Shelter kids (formerly known as Mercy Alive Africa) is a charity in Uganda working with street children and communities in severe impoverishment. It started working with street kids in 2006 as an initiative to cultivate a serious reading culture among the street children. As the numbers grew, it necessitated the initiative to add more programs to better serve the street children, leading to the birth of Save Sunshine Shelter Kids.

Hajara started her interactions with the street kids when she was 14 years old at a popular supermarket balcony in downtown Kampala. She attracted the attention of eight street children who walked up to her after a long day of hunting for food from dustbins, moving around, and crossing different city roads.

During her first interaction with the street kids, they initially approached her as attackers and wanted to take her school bag. Upon interacting with them, she realized they were intrigued by what she was reading. They wanted to be able to read like she did and wear school uniforms like she was. She read to them a few paragraphs and translated what they meant. A few of them were loud and unsettled because of the life that waited for them. Each time they saw a police officer coming towards where they were, the fear and the look on people's faces,

especially watching how dirty and smelly the street boys were, sniffing drugs from small bottles and running after each other, added more to the trouble, as all that could be seen as danger and negative assumptions, which we couldn't rule out in any way. There were no structured or organized programs of any sort because Hajara was a student herself and only met with the street children in the evening after school. As much as Hajara saw that much was needed and had to be done so that these kids would change and improve like any other normal child raised by parents, at this point, being the start, Hajara could only teach them how to read, and it became easier as a few of these kids knew how to read and write.

She went on a mission to collect clothes from people that had more than they could keep. On weekends, Hajara would manage to get clothes, food, and reading materials from her school friends and her grandmother's house and at times invite the street children into her grandmother's house. A few more youths joined Hajara along the way, especially the ex-street children and the non-street children. The idea at first was basically to provide first aid to the sick ones and share meals. The reading program led to the creation of many other initiatives to better extend programs to the street children, especially rehabilitation.