“I returned from Uganda torn between two feelings: on the one hand the outrage for seeing so many children, some of them so small, orphaned by AIDS and left to fend for themselves in a state of utter bewilderment, and on the other hand the pleasant surprise of discovering an Africa capable of renewing herself and taking her destiny firmly into her own hands.”

These are Fr. Danilo’s first impressions on his return from Mbarara, the main city in the district of the same name in the south-west of Uganda, where St Anthony’s Charities will finance a Family Home for AIDS orphans and other children infected by this deadly virus, for the upcoming June 13 Feast of our Saint.

The Home will also be available for single mothers, both with or without AIDS, who, on account of the war and privations, have developed psychiatric conditions.

Read Fr. Danilo’s moving testimony: