Archive for November, 2013
11 November 2013
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 presentation to his school and sold bags and bags of popcorn to raise the funds (his mum also helped out with a fundraising lunch for some friends). I took a photo of Angus to Timor last week and showed it to Amaral who asked if he could keep it to put it on the wall. I also passed on some rulers, pens and books from Angus’ school Scotch Oakburn. Maria, who we’ve also given a scholarship, is in the photo with Amaral.
 
project: English Scholarships
02 November 2013
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 actually being there this week brought home even more how great the need is. The 6 classrooms at the school are literally falling down and only 2 of them have a roof and can be used in anyway for the 340 children. We’re still finalising our project for Sesal – but on this visit we were able to deliver boxes of stationery supplies donated by the Rotary Club of Unley and Glen, a Spend it Well supporter from Melbourne, brought soccer balls and played with the kids which they loved     .   
project: Sesal
02 November 2013
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. The views are spectacular and the new school is perched on the side of the mountain looking over the valley. The foundations and framing are in and the walls are going up. It’s a fabulous looking building and already I can see the improvements our pro-bono architect has made to the design. Tome the builder is employing 4 locals on the construction which is giving them new skills and an income. The contrast to the old windowless, dirt floored school only 50 m away is huge. The new school should be all finished within a month.
     
project: Ossoluga
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