4 Days until Lospalos School Opening
The work is all done at Lospalos school – on both the new building and the old buildings which we refurbished. Now it’s time for the official opening and a celebration.
Can’t ignore state of old classrooms at Lospalos
While our plan was just to build an additional 3 classroom building at Lospalos, we haven’t been able to ignore the state of the two existing classrooms at the school.
Lospalos School Building almost finished
Elvino and his team of builders have done a fabulous job with Lospalos’ new 3 classroom school building which is not far from finished. Once the windows and doors are in,
New classrooms going up at Los Palos
Elvino (our builder) and his workmen are making excellent progress on the new building at Los Palos school. The foundations are in and walls are up – all looking great.
2nd Spend it Well Teacher Training Workshop
The 20 teachers from the 4 schools where Spend it Well works, have now attended their second 2 day training workshop. Lke the previous one, this workshop focused on how to teach numeracy, building
In Dili for East Timor’s 10th anniversary
It’s not every day you get to be part of a country’s 10th anniversary celebrations. What was the most amazing part of it for me? Not the red, black and
Our new school project – Lospalos
My kids’ school in Brisbane has 350 children in 15 classrooms plus music room, library, hall etc etc. Lospalos primary school has 848 students in 7 run-down classrooms – and nothing else. Even with
New uniforms for kids at Macalaco School
At last year’s opening ceremony for the classrooms we built at Macalaco School, I felt sad to see how old the kid’s school uniforms were. Obviously washed with care by
Teaching the teachers
It’s my hope that the last 2 days were the beginning of a transformation of teaching at the 4 schools where Spend it Well is working. Spend it Well funded a
Training for 16 of our teachers
We believe that building schools for kids is essential, but not enough by itself. Many teachers in Timor haven’t had the chance of proper training and this is something we’ve been