Kids helping other kids
13 year old Angus Winspear from Tasmania raised $1,000 to support a year long English language scholarship for Amaral, a 20 year old boy in East Timor. Angus did a
Soccer and Books at Sesal School
If a picture is worth a 1000 words, an actual visit to a school site must be worth about 1 million. I’ve seen scores of photos of Sesal school, but
Ossoluga School is Looking Great
To get to Ossoluga school last Wednesday we drove 4.5 hours from Dili, along the narrow coastal road, crossing a river and then winding up a steep dirt mountain road.
Kris Timor Bound Next Week
This time next week I will be in Timor with Graham, Simon and Stephen, the other Spend it Well founders. We’ll take a big road trip to visit Ossoluga School
Melbourne Lunch raises $32,000 for Sesal School
Two months ago Toby Hemming, who I’d never met, but who’d been to one of our schools in Timor, came to me with the idea of raising money for us
Kirsty Sword Gusmao’s Homecoming
8 months after starting cancer treatment in Australia, Kirsty has returned to Timor-Leste with her and the Prime Minister’s 3 boys. She was met by hundreds of people at the
Timor Rain Clouds have an Architect Silver Lining
We’ve been waiting for the last 2 months for the rains to ease enough for our builder to get his trucks loaded with building supplies up to Ossoluga village.
When we say we work in “remote schools” we’re not joking!
This year’s extra long and wet rainy season has made it hard to get into the remote villages in Timor where Spend it Well works. Agostinho took this 15 second
The Best Part of a School Project
One of my favourite parts of a Spend it Well school project takes place long before the first sod is turned. Once we decide to build a new school, I
Macuale School’s Rockstars
We arranged for the fabulous MAC youth group from Dili to visit Maucale – one of our remote schools. MAC is a dynamic bunch of teenagers who took their electric