1000s of Stationery Items to head to Timor
Thanks to the amazing Rotary Club of Unley SA, 2200 exercise books, 1000 pencils, 80 backpacks and heaps of erasers, coloured pencils, sharpeners etc are packed and ready to be
Welcome to the people of Grassroots
Grassroots are a group of people in Australia who commit $50 each a month and meet quarterly to decide where to direct their money for maximum impact. We’re delighted to
$700 donation doubles school garden and buys chickens
A $700 donation from an Australian family has meant Macalaco School can expand it’s fabulous school garden from 1 to 2 hectares. It’s also paid for chickens to be used
Read about us in Dare Magazine
Dare Magazine did a feature article on us last year – you can read it at http://www.dareoutloud.com/restoring-education-in-east-timor/
Festau School has new toilets
Festau School’s two new toilets, funded by Rotary Port Melbourne, are now finished. The toilets are water free and the structure was designed to blend in with its surroundings with
Rotary Port Melbourne building toilets at Festau School
There are no toilets at Festau School – or elsewhere in the village. That’s about to change as Rotary Port Melbourne has funded the $2,000 necessary to build two water
Fabulous Macalaco Garden
Hi, I’m Zoe Webb and I am 12. A couple of weeks ago I visited East Timor for the first time. One of my favourite times of my trip was visiting the Macalaco
Abu Dhabi School Shirts in Festau Village
We arrived at the tiny mountain village of Festau last week to be greeted by 60 children in school shirts with the “Pearl Primary School” logo on the pocket. The Pearl Primary
Amazing Youth Group goes to Macalaco School
Imagine 130 school children in a remote village in the mountains of East Timor having a music and dance based youth rights group from Dili arrive to perform for them. We were
Lospalos school is open!
Lospalos school was opened with great success this week. After a bone shaking 7 hour drive to Lospalos we visited the school the night before the ceremony. There were people