St Peter’s College is a very different campus to the one I encountered in 2005. After cumulative fund raising efforts, it was a joy to be at the college and to see the completion and consecration of the two new classrooms and staff room. This will enormously improve what the college has to offer.
A new borehole has been established through TDT partner PAG North Teso in the far north of Teso, at Akodokodoi in the Kapelebyong District. The photographs show the heavy drilling equipment that needed to be sent to the site, miles away from any proper roads. The water table in the area is much deeper than
While some free medical care in available in government facilities, there are often additional costs for drugs or special procedures, and very often complex procedures are beyond the local medical facilities. In such cases the patients come to hospitals like Kumi Hospital a former missionary hospital which has better facilities than many. The complication is
On a recent visit to a village in North Teso, where TDT had provided assistance to the community, our team met survivors of the Lord’s Resistance Army, an cultic insurgent army which in the early 2000’s terrorised large swathes of northern Uganda, including Teso. This is the story of two of them who managed to
A team from TDT visited the community at Orapak in North Teso to understand how the new borehole had impacted their community.
Representatives of TDT were unexpectedly accompanied by journalists on part of their 2024 visit to projects in North Teso resulting in national coverage on UBS
The Annual Report of the Teso Development Trust has been published on the Charity Commission website It can be found at this link
Work on the community development at Okerai A in North Teso has drawn to a close. Farmers have integrating climate smart agriculture practises to mitigate the effects of pests and diseases. Tomatoes and aubergines have been very successfully grown. Farmers have also been encouraged to practice small scale irrigation using drip bottles and water collection areas to provide water during drier seasons. Good yields are expected from the cassava cuttings although fewer acres overall were planted than planned.