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An Update About IRA Gift Transfers
Did you know?
Provisions of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 will allow tax-free contributions from IRAs up to $100,000 for those age 70-1/2 and older. Learn more...
Ministry in Uganda
In 1992, Bishop Deogratias Byabazaire, Bishop of Hoima Catholic Diocese in Uganda, East Africa, recognized the need to raise educational standards and prepare children for Catholic leadership within the Kibaale district. In 1992, he approached Sister Mary Joell Overman, the Superior General, about sending Sisters of Notre Dame to undertake this work. Sr. Mary Margaret Droege and Sister Mary Amy Hauck, leaders of the Kentucky and California provinces of the Sisters of Notre Dame, approached their sisters about responding to this need. The provinces decided to jointly establish a mission.
In July 1995, four Sisters of Notre Dame arrived in Buseesa, Uganda. By 1998 St. Julie Primary School began and in 2003 Notre Dame Academy Senior Secondary School opened its doors. Young Ugandan women first entered a formation program in 2002. With these steps, Notre Dame made a new home in Uganda. The first novices from Uganda made their profession of vows in October of 2006. The second foundation, a house of study and formation, opened outside Kampala in the spring of 2009.