Joseph, photo above, aged 38 and Charles, photo below, aged 75, are very grateful for the support they recevied from the Compassionate Fund. They both needed surgery for leg fractures. Charles received 124,100 UGX (£27) and Joseph 259,600 UGX (£57). Surgery is expsensive and therefore often the treatment that patients can struggle to pay the
Flood Relief Update In response to the flooding in August TDT sent funds to our partners in Teso to distribute food items, tarpaulins and mosquito nets to the most vulnerable in the worst affected communities. 100 households in Agonga and Odiding Parishes, Okungur sub-county and 100 in Kamatur sub county in Kumi District. The basic
To read or download a copy of the TDT Annual Return 2024-2025 please use the link below. https://tesodev.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/2024-2025-Annual-Report-Signed.pdf
Autumn Newsletter 2025 To read or download a copy of our latest newsletter please use this link https://tesodev.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Newsletter-Autumn-2025-Small.pdf
The TDT AGM takes place on Saturday 11th October 2025 at 12 noon on Zoom The Annual Report and Accounts for 2024/25 will be presented and information about the charity presented through the Chair report and selected reports on areas of the charity’s work. If you wish to join the Zoom meeting please contact our
Reports are coming in of heavy rains causing significant flooding in areas of Teso with infrastructure, homes and crops damaged and destroyed. TDT are assessing the needs with our partners with a view to releasing relief aid to support those affected. If you can contribute to this relief please use the Just Giving link
Teso Development Trust, its supporters and volunteers were privileged to be able to host Bishop Kosea and his wife Grace for three weeks this summer as they visited and encouraged, numerous individual supporters and donor churches. Bishop Kosea nd Grace were able to give all they met an up to date picture of the situation
Our Spring Newsletter is now available to bring supporters up to date with the latest information about TDT and its work. It can be found at this link
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.