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...
Teso Development Trust has a long-standing relationship with Ngora Freda Carr Hospital which is a church managed hospital located in Ngora District in Teso founded in 1922.Serving a poor rural community means that it is hard for the hospital to make enough money for maintenance and other tasks iteslf as so many of the patients...
When TDT first visited Aminit High School in October 2018 the school was more a dream than a reality. A few classes used borrowed classrooms from a primary school that would soon need them back. A brick outline of a three classroom block had risen to around waist height but had then stalled through lack...
In many ways the community in the Apopong area is a new community. This very Northern area of Teso was largely abandoned for many years as civil war, marauding cattle raiders and finally the murderous Lord's Resistance Army broke the will of the local Iteso people to stay. but with the return of peace the...