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About TEF

Teso Education Fund (TEF) is a charity organisation number 1196225. TEF is registered in the UK to promote development through mobilising resources, providing grants, and implementing projects in education, skills training, and education related interventions in Teso in Uganda and Kenya and in the UK and online.

Our Vision

A world in which all young people are well educated, skilled and empowered to live their lives to their full potential.

Our Mission

To improve the wellbeing of underprivileged children, families, and communities in Teso through sustainable advancement of education and skills training, undertaking other development interventions and ensuring social inclusion in our work.

Our Motto

Aica Na Ateker

Theme for 2020

Together for Teso

Our Values

In doing our work, we will be guided by the following values:

  1. Professionalism – adherence to highest standards of practice.
  2. Integrity – being honest and showing a consistent and uncompromising adherence to strong moral and ethical principles and values.
  3. Transparency – practice openness.
  4. Accountability – being responsible and justifying our actions including the use of financial resources.
  5. Inclusiveness – Including people in our work who might otherwise be excluded.

Our Principles

While doing our work, we will be guided by the following principles:

  1. Performance – deliver desired results consistently.
  2. Processes – rely on our procedures, regulations, and systems.
  3. Proof – provide evidence of our work and its impact.
  4. People – rely on volunteers, staff, and other people of good will to achieve our purpose.
  5. Partnership – work with many stakeholders to achieve our purpose.

Our Goals

To advance education and skills training of people who are unable to continue their education by supporting learners, educators, and education and training institutions, preventing or relieving poverty, undertaking community education, undertaking other social and economic interventions, and ensuring social inclusion in the education system in Uganda, Kenya, and the UK.

Our Objectives

  1. To advance the formal education of needy children for the public benefit by undertaking activities such as sponsorship and career guidance to support learners, training, motivating, and empowering teachers, and supporting learning institutions in Uganda and in Kenya.
  2. To promote the education of needy children for the public benefit by undertaking vocational training activities such as sponsorship of, career guidance, and apprenticeship to trainees, training, motivating, and empowering trainers, and supporting training institutions with educational materials and infrastructure in Uganda and Kenya.
  3. To facilitate the education and skills training of young people for the public benefit by preventing or relieving poverty, undertaking healthcare interventions including psychosocial support, research, and all the necessary support designed to empower needy individuals, families, and communities to generate a sustainable income and be self-sufficient in the UK, Uganda, and Kenya.
  4. To advance education and skills training for the public benefit by undertaking community education activities such as indigenous language education, physical education, environmental education, civic education, financial education, promotion of the arts and culture and games and sports, for communities in need in Uganda, Kenya, the UK, and online.
  5. To advance social inclusion in education and skills training by ensuring that children with disabilities and other marginalized children who are at the risk of being excluded from the education and vocational training system are actively sought out and included in special needs educational and training programs in the UK, Uganda, and Kenya.

TEF Management

Dr Patrick Igulot

Executive Director

Beatrice Okwalinga

Director of Administration

Martha Dzimega

Director for Culture and Community

TEF Board of Trustees

Dr Patrick Igulot

Executive Director

Martha Ococ

Trustee