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

(2013) For a third consecutive year, the Rotary Club of Clarence teamed up with ROTA and provided a Christmas party to many of our...

(2012) One goal of most refugees who arrive in our area is taking advantage of the educational possibilities that exist here. As many...

(2009) Do you remember these two????? In the first photo pictured on the right is our dear friend, the late Fr. Evarist Lubega. May he...

(2011) Reaching Out 2 Africa continues to assist local African families in Western New York while coordinating construction and...

2010 brought many happy times for former refugees as graduations took place. Victor Habasshuti, left, pictured here with his brother...

(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...

(2008) When we first met Fr. Emmanuel Katabaazi in 2005, he was a parish priest at the Church of the Visitation in the Diocese of Maska,...

(2011) Forty pre-registered African Sudanese voters along with Fr. Ron Sajdak boarded a Grand Tour Bus early Sunday, January 9th to begin...

(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...

In 2001 a young man from Egypt was visiting USA with the Maryknoll Missionaries. Fr. Douglas May, Maryknoll Missionary from Boston, NY...

(2007) How many of us really believe in miracles? I know I do! For twenty-five years in a land so far away called Sudan, people's fought...

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