TESS

Welcome to Teso Educational Support Services

Teso Educational Support Services (TESS) is a charity which exists to support vulnerable young people originating from or living in Teso in north-eastern Uganda through secondary, tertiary and vocational education.

We would like to see every child in the Teso region of north-eastern Uganda grow into the whole person that God intended them to be through relevant education (as well as spiritual and emotional development, life skills and self sufficiency training).

Would you like to join us in this mission?

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TESS achieves its objectives by running an educational sponsorship programme and through the building of Shalom International School for Life-Long Learning in Teso. Click on the photographs underneath to learn more about each programme.

Sponsorship programme

The Great British Cycling Adventure LEJOG
Lands End to John O'Groats
1000 miles
11 days

Peter Boddy (TESS sponsor and supporter - in the yellow) has now completed the above cycle ride. He writes:

We got to the finish at John O'Groats as planned on day 11, approx 2 pm, Tues, 13/09/11.

The final damage was; 1010 miles, 11 days, approx 90 hours in the saddle, 4 punctures, 1 broken spoke (fixed semi - permanently at the road side in 45 minutes),

2 sets of brake blocks, 3 ferry crossings - The Mersey crossing & onto then off Arran, countless bottles of a well known branded sports drink, flap jacks, chocolate, breakfast bars & bannanas, 1 swollen ankle, 1 numb toe, 4 very tired legs, 2 very tender behinds. The hardest thing to cope with was probably the lack of sleep early on when we were doing the 100 plus mile days, as we were finishing around or after night fall & up again at 5 - 5.30 am. It rained virtually every day with the last 5 - 6 days being pretty wet & cold throughout, although retaining our sense of humours & keeping our general camaraderie fairly high has made it an enjoyable experience. We think the hardest thing about readjusting to normal life will be dropping back down to a normal calorie intake as we were eating huge daily amounts of food. On day 7 we both commented that we did not want to see another breakfast bar again!

Pete has raised almost £200 for TESS on the cycle ride but there is still time to sponsor him here: http://www.justgiving.com/PeteBoddy0