outreach

Regina Nansubuga, Uganda

From southern Uganda. Joined as a pioneer in the year 2000, when the group of Ugandan CLM started. Worked in Kasaala parish with youth. There are youth groups in secondary schools, and the Youth Alive programme for youth and young adults in an attempt to reach out for AIDS awareness to young and mature people. We didn’t know anything about the lay missionaries outside of our country. We have had lay missionaries from Germany and from other places, but we have not yet collaborated. Our meetings are mainly in Kampala.

Charles Boya, Uganda

I have been working with the Comboni Sisters since 1989. By 1992 a Sister started a programme caring for the sick. In the 1990s, a Comboni Father also came to encourage us in Gulu. We became very excited. 10 years later, we heard that a group was already formed in the South of Uganda. Due to the situation of war in the North, we could not travel South for our formation. In 2003, 6 of us were commissioned by the Bishop as Lay Comboni Missionaries. The Comboni Samaritans care for children, AIDS, women, and do outreach in schools and the towns. I am one of the administrators.