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Read
our Winter 2009/Spring 2010 Newsletter
- CLICK HERE
Thanks to
Marilyn Curtis for raising over £700
in the 2009 Great South Run
- CLICK HERE
See a
slideshow of the loading of the
container despatched on 18th July 2009
- CLICK HERE
See a
slideshow of the unloading of the
above container in Soroti in late October
2009
- CLICK HERE
Test your
knowledge of Uganda
with our online quiz
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Our
purpose:
 Friends of Teso (Uganda)
collects clothes for children and adults, books,
bedding, educational materials and practical
equipment such as sewing machines, bicycles,
wheelchairs and other mobility aids. We then send
these to Teso using money collected from our
fundraising activities. Friends of Teso is a
registered charity - No 1111413.
How it all began:
 Friends of Teso (Uganda)
started as a result of the visit to Soroti in
Northern Uganda in May 2002 by a working party
from Bournemouth Deanery. The team was guest of
Charles, Bishop of Soroti, and the people of his
Diocese. The original purpose was to build a
hostel for girls to enable them to study in
safety and to protect them from molestation and
the risk of AIDS.
 During this visit, the team
was greatly saddened by the plight of the
thousands of people who were living in camps for
displaced people because of attacks upon them and
their villages by The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA),
a group who murdered many people and stole
children to turn them into child soldiers and
slaves. See Human
Rights Watch report on conflict in Northern
Uganda - July 2003.
The security situation is now improving but still
very fragile, and several hundreds of
thousands of people are still living in the
Internally Displaced Persons Camps. The LRA
continue their murderous behaviour over the
border in the east of the Democratic Republic of
Congo.
The people of Northern Uganda are rebuilding
their society, but there is much to do. Vital
infrastructure, such as schools and hospitals,
must be rebuilt and re-equipped, and support will
be needed more than ever in the coming years to
help the people of Northern Uganda re-establish
self-sufficient communities.
What we have achieved so
far:
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December
2002 -
Seven boxes of children's
clothes and three boxes of books were
sent to Soroti.
October
2003 - 7.5
tons of goods were sent by container via
the Christian African Relief Trust (CART),
an organisation based in Huddersfield.
October
2004 -
A 20 foot container of goods was
sent to Soroti, which was received with
great joy and appreciation in February
2005.
November
2005 - A
40 foot container of goods was despatched
to Soroti on 26th November 2005 and
arrived in Soroti on 22nd February 2006. CLICK HERE to
view the journey of this shipment. CLICK HERE to
read the response from Charles, Bishop of
Soroti.
August 2006
- A 40 foot
container of goods was despatched to
Soroti on 19th August 2006. It arrived in
Soroti in October 2006. CLICK HERE to
read the article from the Southampton
Echo about its despatch. CLICK HERE to
see photographs of the container being
opened in Soroti.
June 2007 - A
40 foot container of goods was despatched
to Soroti on 16th June 2007. It arrived
in Soroti in late September 2007. CLICK HERE to
see photographs of the container being
loaded.
October
2007 - A
40 foot container of goods was despatched
to Soroti on 13th October 2007. CLICK HERE to
see photographs of the container being
loaded.
August 2008
- A 40 foot
container of goods was despatched to
Soroti on 23th August 2008 and arrived in
Soroti on 4th April 2009. CLICK HERE to
see photographs of the container being
loaded.
July 2009 - A
40 foot container of goods was despatched
to Soroti on 18th July 2009 and arrived
in Soroti in late October 2009. CLICK HERE to
see a slideshow of the container being
loaded. CLICK HERE to
see a slideshow of the container being
unloaded in Soroti in late October 2009.
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Our sources of support:
 Our charity has several
sources of support. One is the original group
from Bournemouth Deanery, another is staff of
Hampshire Social Services together with their
families, friends and colleagues. In addition, we
are receiving increasing levels of help and
support from the residents and churches of the
villages of Bishop's Waltham and Swanmore in
Hampshire, England.
Many thanks to all who have
contributed. Can you help?
Read
our Winter 2009/Spring 2010 Newsletter -
CLICK HERE
Thanks to
Marilyn Curtis for raising over £700 in
the 2009 Great South Run - CLICK HERE
See a
slideshow of the loading of the container
despatched on 18th July 2009 - CLICK HERE
See a
slideshow of the unloading of the above
container in Soroti in late October 2009 -
CLICK HERE
See
pictures of those helping and benefiting
from the work of
Friends of Teso (Uganda) - CLICK HERE
Thanks to
Jenny Rose and friends for their 'Donate
a Pen to Uganda' appeal
- CLICK HERE
Test your
knowledge of Uganda with our online quiz
- CLICK HERE
Bishops
Waltham and Swanmore Notelets for sale
- CLICK HERE
Browse our
site archive
- CLICK HERE
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