For our 20th Year Thanksgiving Celebration at ROTOM Uganda, we’re so grateful for donors like our beloved Sandra Gravatt who gave a daily, personal account during our thanksgiving week there from Oct. 1-7! We hope you’ll enjoy perusing the photos she took and posted online while visiting her senior Ida Nakazibwe. Sandra writes, “What an […]
ROTOM 20 Years
ROTOM Turns 20 Next Month. US EVENT Scheduled!
As ROTOM turns 20, we’re thinking big! Next month on October 1 ROTOM Uganda begins its “Celebration Month” with a week of activities and celebrations, along with Thanksgiving services each Sunday at various churches where our seniors gather in Uganda worship. In the U.S., we have our LIVE celebration planned for Saturday, October 28 in […]
Celebrate 20 Years of ROTOM with US 🎉
Greetings! We’re very excited to announce that this year on Saturday, October 28th, we are gearing up to celebrate a glorious 20 years of ROTOM together in the U.S.! Our founder, Kenneth Mugayehwenkyi is presenting the history, our present goals and ideas for the future – alongside our founding donors, during a LIVESTREAM presentation to […]
UG Summer Newsletter: Celebrating 20 Years of Hope
This year marks 20 years of existence for ROTOM and we’d like to share our latest newsletter from the field of Uganda. Together with other grandmothers, ROTOM staff and friends, it was their mission back in 2013 to share the situation of older persons struggling in Uganda by walking nearly a month-long marathon. ROTOM supported senior […]
Growing Old in Uganda by ROTOM Donor Nancy Wellnitz
A Lookback on 20 Years of ROTOM – Reflection from Journey for Change Member, Nancy Wellnitz – June 2012 Recently I had the privilege of traveling on a short term mission trip to Uganda with the mission agency, Reach One Touch One Ministries (ROTOM), that works with seniors age 60+ in rural parts of Uganda. […]
84-year-old Eseza Lives a Hopeful Life
You may not expect older persons to thrive in their vulnerable old age. But Jajja Eseza who is 84 years old is like many other ROTOM supported seniors – still excited and hopeful about life! Your generosity as a donor enables ROTOM to offer her health care, food, hygiene products, psychosocial support and a community […]
Grateful to be with You, Partners by Kenneth Mugayehwenkyi
Dear Friends and Partners, As Miriam and I fly home, after spending two incredible months in U.S., we leave with a grateful heart. Grateful for what you all do for the seniors and children in Uganda and in Ethiopia. Grateful of how our friends and partners in U.S. received us and expressed their love and […]
20 Years Strong with ROTOM
Through the years of their devoted support and encouragement, longtime senior friends Sue and John Gourley have ultimately affected the Ugandan community of ROTOM as a whole. We discussed with Sue over a heart-to-heart, digital conversation the details of their beginnings with ROTOM. Read on to hear their powerful story! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It’s hard to believe […]
Love Lifted Her: The Story that Birthed ROTOM 20 Years Ago
It was nearly 20 years ago that Kenneth and his wife Miriam set out on a short journey from their family home in Mukono, Uganda to the neighboring village of Bajjo. Kenneth had just returned home from his work in the United States of America to join his wife and 4 boys for Christmas when […]