Mission Appeal – August 1 & 2

Who we are: The Little Sisters of Mary Immaculate of Gulu (LSMIG) are an indigenous Congregation of Catholic Sisters founded in 1936 in the Archdiocese of Gulu, in Northern Uganda (East Africa). 

Ministry to Refugee Child Mothers and refugee children in northern Uganda: The LSMIG Sisters continue to uniquely serve a people of northern Uganda who are emerging from a nearly 30 years of civil war while concurrently giving service to refugees from South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Uganda remains a home to 1.56 million refugees and 57% of these are settled in northern Uganda (UNHCR- September 2023). The most affected are children who arrived in Uganda unaccompanied. The little girls in particular have become child-mothers at 13-15 year of age due to sexual violence, forced early marriage.  

We are grateful to Rev. Michael Ruminski, and the Saint Thomas and Saint Timothy Parish, West Hartford, CT for your generosity and financially contribution in 2024. We were able to: 

• expand school feeding program to include breakfast and lunch for the school children. 
• Strengthened the school health program by stocking enough medical supplies in the school infirmary, purchased 700 mosquito nets for each child to sleep under. This has significantly reduced the rate of malaria infection by 80% among the children.
• We also purchased educational supplies such as text books, exercise books and pen for the Daycare, the kindergarten and the Elementary classes and the vocational sections.
• The school enrolment has increased from 517 in 2024 to 634 (22.6%) in 2025.

Thank you so much for igniting hope in these refugee child Mothers, their babies and the other refugee children through Catholic Education.  We the LSMIG sisters feel encouraged to continue living our Charism of sharing God’s love and kindness to All, with zeal and dedication.  Ourmission to witness to the love of Jesus Christ to the poor and most vulnerable members of the society is only possible with your generosity. THANK YOU!

Your help is still needed to  Sustain:

1. School feeding Program for 90% of the children for whom school food is the only meal of the day 
2. School health Program especially medical supplies and mosquito nets because Uganda is prone to malaria.
3. Solar Energy: To light the classrooms, dormitory and security lights to the school compound specially in the evening for studies and safety of the children.

We kindly invite you, through your Pastor, for your financial support to facilitate the effort of our LSMIG Sisters to break the cycle of child motherhood in the refugee camps and to impart the values of God’s love and kindness to these children through Catholic Education.  

You can make your gift with a check or in cash to your Parish, with a memo for the LSMIG. Or use parish online giving.

Please pray for us and be assured of our prayers for you, your Parish, your family and your loved ones. May God graciously bless you.  Thank you for your generosity!