New updates on September 20: Sr. Mary Leanne Hubbard’s travels in East Africa continue. She visited the SNDs in Nairobi, Kenya as well as an orphanage in Tanzania. She accompanied another group of young sisters on retreat. Enjoy your photos and updates.
Innovation and Environmental Sustainability in Urban Uganda Despite being less than a mile from Lake Victoria, one of the largest freshwater lakes in the world, the residents of Mpala have little access to healthy fish. Overfishing, pollution, invasive species, and illegal exportation of fish have led to a decline in Read more…
Fr. Godfrey Tuhairwe is a diocesan Catholic priest from the diocese of Hoima in midwestern part of Uganda, East Africa. His parish includes St. Julie Mission in Buseesa. Before pandemic restrictions on travel, Fr. Godfrey made several visits to California to participate in the Archdiocesan Mission Cooperative program. Ugandan Martyr’s Read more…
Thanks be to God, 13 Sisters made vows in East Africa…. 5 women made final vows and 8 novices professed their first vows as a Sister of Notre Dame. These 8 newly vowed sisters will continue their formation journey as they learn more about the SND charism and mission, as Read more…
The Sisters of Notre Dame in East Africa have been busy! Check in with them LIVE to hear what they’ve accomplished this past year.
Students, Sisters and staff at St. Julie Primary School in Uganda also participated in the annual Nun Run sponsored by the California Region. From Uganda, the entire primary school (350 people) joined the 750 Californians and 60 virtual runners across the USA who also ran in support of the SND Read more…
Eleven SNDs from the East Africa Delegation have been living in Buseesa, Uganda to learn theory and praxis in education. They will now move on to the practicum (student teaching) portion of their training. They express gratitude to Sr. Colette, Sr. Rozaria, and Sr. Christine for making this educational opportunity possible.
St. Julie Mission students from the primary and secondary levels knocked it out of the park on the 2021 Uganda national exams. This was even after being out of the classroom for months due to COVID and with no digital learning like many schools pursued in the United States. The Read more…
In the mid 1990s, a group of Sisters of Notre Dame left behind everything they knew and travelled over 7,000 miles to a place where they didn’t know the language or culture. Their mission? To build a school from the ground up and spread God’s goodness. Sister Mary Margaret Droege, Read more…
The spark they have given us during the past three weeks is slowly lighting up the flame within us. We were truly enriched and reenergized by the wonderful inputs, thoughts and ideas we got from our dear Sisters. We value and thank God for their insights and guidance.