Stephen and I are here. After over a year of thinking about East Timor, we’ve finally arrived. It was a glorious flight from Darwin, with the sun just coming up

As a mother who has spent a lot of time on planes with small children, I have endured many humiliations. Today was a new addition to the long list however.

Well Ostico School is finished and from all reports is better than we could have hoped for! It was looking this week like the Prime Minister, Xanana Gusmao, would be

I sent out an email a couple of days ago to my friends asking if anyone had books or soccer balls I could take to East Timor with me. It

Simon went to the school again last weekend. Apparently the builder was very disappointed that Simon went on a Saturday as he is very proud of his work and wanting

Agostinho has made a couple of trips to the school (a round trip of at least 6 hours) and has been reporting back that everything is going really well. Simon

Just 3 weeks later and heaps has happened on the school. Simon and Agostinho visited the site on Friday and Saturday and sent a report with lots of photos. The

I made history today I’m sure. After about an hour in the head office of HSBC in Abu Dhabi I think that I have sent US$15,000 to Elvino the builder’s

Simon and Agostinho went out to Ostico again on the weekend, this time with Catherine and Sharad, two of the DLA Piper lawyers on secondment to the government in East

Simon, Jenny and Agostinho went out to Ostico today to meet and talk to representatives of the community. Everything went really well and Simon placed the shovel of cement. From