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(2021) In our ministry at ROTA, this little line from the Gospel of Matthew 7:7 is lived out with each new mission project. Just at the...

(2021) ROTA received a request for assistance from Rev. Fr. Joseph Kasangaki of Masaka Diocese in Uganda. The request was approved and...

(2021) ROTA has had much success with our partners in the Mission Diocese of Masaka Uganda. Through our investment dollars we have...

(2020) We first met Fr. Joseph Kasangaki when he was an associate Pastor of a parish community. Soon after we met him he was appointed...

(2021) When ROTA had majorly completed the building project of the Medical Clinic in the Village of Koiyom, South Sudan, it was still...

(2020) While on our African travels, our delegation had the opportunity to visit the school that benefited from collected fundraising...

(2020) Back in 2012, a group of four Western New Yorkers traveled to the Diocese of Masaka, Uganda,, in order to witness the blessing and...

(2019) It was only in 2012 that four of us from Buffalo made the journey to Masaka Uganda to attend the dedication of the Kitovu Medicine...

(2018) In one of my visitations with ministry colleagues including my good friend Bishop John Baptist Kaggwa of the Diocese of Masaka I...

(2017) A new Kitchen building and cooking stove, and three water tanks have been the result of $4,800 dollars in donated funds by the:...

(2016) “A Long Walk to Water” by Linda Sue Park features the true life story of Salva Dut who became one of the “Lost Boys of the Sudan.”...

(2012) It all began with an innocent question in a telephone conversation between Fr. Emmanuel Katabaazi, coordinator of Catholic Health...

(2013) In April of 2009, members of ROTA: Reaching Out 2 Africa, an outreach ministry of St. Martin de Porres Church, traveled to the...

(2009) It is hard to imagine but it was already fourteen months ago that former “Lost Boy” Fidele Diing Dhan guided me on my first...

(2009) Just when we at ROTA thought we could relax a bit having finished our work with the “Evarist House” Dormitory project, the “Share...

By Joan Ersing (2008) From the very start of our journey to Uganda, Africa, there was a sense of mission. I had heard all the stories...

(2005) Our first international project began with the meeting of a Ugandan Priest on a Sabbatical rest period in Buffalo, NY in 2002. Fr....