• Father Kishore Kottana, of St. Rose Catholic Church, center, is surrounded by boys who live in the home in Sirsi, India.
    Father Kishore Kottana, of St. Rose Catholic Church, center, is surrounded by boys who live in the home in Sirsi, India.
  • Below is the extension to the shed, providing room for a second cow purchased with a donation from a St. Rose parishioner.
    Below is the extension to the shed, providing room for a second cow purchased with a donation from a St. Rose parishioner.

    Among the many detriments of the COVID-19 pandemic, opportunities for volunteering and helping others were diminished.

    However, students and parishioners at St. Rose Catholic Church did not let the coronavirus stop them from helping a boys orphanage in India during the past year.

    Father Kishore Kottana, a native of India, was one of five people in 2003 who started the boys home in Sirsi and served t…