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GOOD NEWS FROM FATHER EXPEDIT IN UGANDA
September 2009

GOOD NEWS NUMBER ONE:

Our School Gets Desks.

Greetings to all of you from Uganda. I hope you had a good summer. I was told it was not as hot as it can be at times.

Here in Uganda our weather is always very good, yes, sometimes it gets hot but no humidity, this makes a big difference. One day, I know you will come to visit.

This time I am writing to share a lot of good news with you friends. First of all, with the donations you made during Lent and the Easter Season we have been able to buy desks for all our students in our school. All the students (150) can now sit comfortably and learn and even learn to write something that was impossible before we got the desks.

Thanks to Ms. Carmen Novas who offered the American doll that made a lot of money for and to all of you who bought the tickets. Again, we thank Carmen Novas who sold children’s clothes that raised more money ($ 490.69) from these proceeds we have been able to make 66 desks that are enough for us at the moment. In future, we may need more desks because the parents are bringing us a lot of children but we do not have enough classrooms to accommodate them. So, we send many of them away until we have more buildings. People love our schools because there is emphasis on religion and cleanliness and discipline. I am very strict on in those areas in our school, no compromise.

GOOD NEWS NUMBER TWO

Six Needy Parishes Received Mass Vestments from you.

I would like to thank the team that was headed by Mrs. Dora Hanrahan and Deacon John Flannery who collected the mass vestments and put them together to ship them to me. Then thanks also to Dora and her sister Fran who paid for the shipping to Uganda. Six parishes have benefited from this offer as each parish got two mass vestments.

GOOD NEW NUMBER THREE

Several Children Got Rosaries.

Many thanks go to the Rosary Society of St. Thomas Aquinas Church who took the trouble to make these rosaries and shipped them to Uganda. Several children from our school had the first share. But I also gave rosaries to some children in the church where I normally say mass on Sundays when I am at the seminary near the city. These children were getting ready for First Holy Communion. As usual I had to promise many children that they will get rosaries when we get more. Thanks to the members of the Rosary Society of St. Thomas Aquinas church under the leadership of Anna Moa for this offer.  I told the children to pray for you always. They love to say the rosary, but what I have noticed is that all the Catholic children even those public schools here in Uganda are not afraid of wearing the rosaries they love them.

Pray for us and we shall pray for you as well. The faith is growing well here and you have played a big role in this growth. May God bless you all for your various contributions.

GOOD NEWS NUMBER FOUR

Fr. Expedit’ Book Has Been Published.

My PHD dissertation that I did at Fordham University was appreciated and the Lambert Academic Publishers in Köln Germany, looked for me to give them permission to publish it and sell it worldwide. When you see it please support by buying as some of the proceeds will help our school and part of it will support me personally since priests in Uganda have no other means of support provided.

The more the book sells the better for the school and for me. The book is called

“Implementing Universal Primary Education in Uganda. By Expedit Sserunjogi” (It is in English) NB:  I am working on some other books in the field of education in Africa.  

That is enough for this time.  May God bless you all.  
Yours in Christ,

 Fr. Expedit

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JUNE 2009 LETTER FROM FATHER EXPEDIT

A BIG THANK YOU FROM UGANDA

Dear Friends,

I greet you all on behalf of my community here in Uganda.

I convey my condolences to Fr. Jesus Cuadros who lost both of his parents and all those who have lost loved ones. I also thank you for all your prayers for my mother who passed away in March. We pray that they may all join the risen Lord in heaven.

Allow me to express our sincere gratitude to you all for the donations you gave for our school during Lent and the Easter time. I thank the members of START for their sale of crosses and pretzels that raised $ 1,037.00. We are grateful to Suzanne Simonetti who made the pretzels and of course all those who bought them. Special thanks also go to the children of the liturgy of the word and their teachers who raised $ 682 from the mite boxes. We thank Mary Gallegos who made a very special contribution to this donation with her beautiful letter.

In addition to these donations we also received contributions from individuals that totaled $ 1,365.00. Together with these donors I also thank those who have been supporting us at various times.

I am glad to inform you that with these donations we have been able to put in all the windows and doors as well as to work on the floors. Our school looks so different and the students are already using it despite being incomplete. Our next phase is the external and internal plastering as well as the ceiling finish.

We are very grateful for the sacrifices you make to help us despite the difficult economic situation. Allow me to conclude by thanking the people who work as bridges between you and me as far as this project is concerned. These include Fr. Jesus Cuadros, Ms. Edith Newman, Mrs. MaryAnne Walsh, Mrs. Dorothy Negron and Mrs. Dora Hanrahan. I thank them for their time and effort.

May the Good Lord continue to bless  you all.

Fr. Expedit Sserunjogi                 

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Dear Friends,
Greetings to you all! It has been awhile since I sent you a message but you are in my prayers. Congratulations to all those who have been blessed in one way or another and condolences to those who have lost loved ones.

Thank you for your letters, cards and e-mails to me and special thanks for the donations in support of the work we do here in Uganda. Allow me to send special thanks to the young people of St. Thomas Aquinas Rising Teens (S.T.A.R.T.) and their animator, MaryAnne for the donation of $770. This donation enabled one of our high schools to buy a public address system which we use in our liturgical functions. I also thank the other group led by Mrs. Carmen de Jesús and all the individual donors who have supported me with their gifts. Thank you for all your sacrifices.

With regard to the health clinic project, we have decided to change the project into an elementary school. We have reached this decision with my community and my Bishop after realizing that our government is choosing a location that takes this project from my community for which it was granted in the first place. The clinic has to be approved by the government because in the long run we would need their support to get the medications for the clinic. In our case, the government would not approve us unless we agreed with their location, which would be out of my community!

We have therefore decided to use your donations to build an elementary school, which is also one of the needs of my community. This does not require the approval of the government.

Because of the limited funds we have in our account at the present time, ($16,000), we have decided to begin with the construction of three classrooms and an office. We will extend the building as more funds become available. The entire school of seven classrooms and an office would require $40,000. I will keep you updated as we go along.

God bless you!
Fr. Expedit