TESS

2006 Rev Jeremiah Acelun and colleagues in the Diocese of Kumi started discussing ideas

2007 First discussions between Rev Jeremiah Acelun and Margaret Stevens of TESS

2008 Fortnightly prayer for Shalom started in Kumi Diocese

2009 Rt Rev Thomas Irigei offered us land at Atiira in Kapir Parish and took us to see it

2009 First donations received

2010 Many meetings and consultations locally, nationally and internationally

June 2010 Architect and engineers meet on site for the first time

27th June 2010 Service in Atiira church to launch the vision

October 2010 Process started to register Shalom School as a Foreign NGO


22nd April 2011 Architect, local engineers and EFOD engineers mark out Phase 1 buildings

23rd April 2011 Groundbreaking ceremony with planting of trees and unveiling of the signboard

16th & 17th August 2011 Work starts on the site

August 2011 Process of registering Shalom as a Company Limited by Guarantee started

September 2011 Making bricks and laying the foundations

Two emails were sent to Margaret Stevens on 2nd September, giving a sense of the excitement everyone is feeling as building work gets underway.

Rev Jeremiah Acelun, the Director of Shalom, who has been away from Teso studying for a Masters in Education, wrote:

“From Mukono, I went straight to the site. I found Canon Margaret and her husband Elijah there at the site. Excitement only. The Lay Reader asked me to provide the site with a Site Visitors Book. I promise to do this even tomorrow. He notices that several visitors are coming in to see type of work. Beautiful blocks pressed out now. Pick-up truck loaded with water. It was brilliant of the Chair of TESS to ensure a pick-up was bought.”

Rev Charles Okunya, Jeremiah’s assistant in Kumi Diocese, who is the one who keeps sending us photos of the building work in progress, wrote:

“Oh!!! The community is so happy and impressed. Everyone has been eager for this. Your name-sake Canon Margaret has been at the site for the last two days, and today even the husband was around. And they have planned to host the Bishop at their church on Sunday and l know the Bishop is going to encourage them to own the project.”



13th September 2011 - Foundations for the guest house being laid

15th September 2011 - Grant for £15,000 received from the Allan & Nesta Ferguson Charitable Trust

20th September 2011 – Laying the foundations of the floors for the bedrooms and bathrooms of the Guest House

26th September 2011 - Rain water harvesting has been installed on the church meaning water from the site can be obtained from here. The eco-san toilets are starting to take shape and the first interlocking bricks have been used on the guest house