The water table in North Teso is low which means that in order to provide safe water a borehole needs to be sunk. The current cost to sink one borehole is £7000. A recent borehole completed was in Orapak Village in Amuria which provided safe water for 620 people including the local primary school. School...
A natural spring protection costs around £1500 and due to the high water table in Kumi District usually it is only necessary to protect a natural spring in order to provide safe water for the community. In 2024 four spring protections were completed providing water for 1920 people. Following the provision of water communities frequently...
10 water projects wre completed with PAG Central in 2024 providing water for an estimated 5265 people. Around 20% of TDT's annual project expenditure is on water projects. The benefits of water projects are immediately obvious in reduction in disease levels, time saved and the protection of women and girls who aren't put at risk...
The Pentecostal Assemblies of God Central Teso have over a number of years trained Self Help Groups (SHGs) in the Soroti and Serere Districts in savings and loans activities, thereby opening them to the possibility of improving living standards. The groups are most often established in communities where water sources have been provided through PAG with...
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A three year programme was completed in 2024 for the community at Okerai A in Kapelebyong. 150 households were enrolled into five savings and loans groups, training them in the financial management which would enable to use the groups for building savings as well as borrowing for specific projects and needs. 360 farmers were trained in vegetable...
This project managed by PAG North Teso is aimed at improving local farming skills, knowledge of climate smart agricultural practices and farming as a family business, with the overall aim of improving food security in households through increased production levels as well as increased income levels from farming production and participation in VSLA activities. The...
TDT gives regular funding for this ongoing project across schools Soroti District. Female members of staff also take part in the trainings as well as the female students aged 10-18. Around 50% of the girls in the classes have said that they miss 2-5 days a month of school because of menstrual hygiene issues. Disposable...
Soroti Mother’s Union, which is part of the Diocese of Soroti, has run a project setting up Women’s Adult Literacy Groups across the Diocese. The group come together as a Savings Group and initially start the learning based around what is needed to accurately record the various individual savings amounts and loans given. Overall the...
Right in the North of Teso, in the District of Kapelebyong, Apopong was always in the front line of the violence that came in waves, in the civil war, when the Lord's Resistance Army came in waves from the North, when heavily armed Karamajong fighters came at night to steal cattle. As a result the...