22 April 2011
Maucale School Project is underway
Spend it Well’s second school project for 2011 has kicked off at Maucale village with the official ground breaking ceremony. Jenny and Agostinho arrived at the village to a long welcoming line of villagers. There were speeches and traditional dancing and incredible enthusiasm for the new school building. We’ll have news of work starting very soon.
   
project: Maucale East Timor
COMMENTS: ADD A COMMENT
31 March 2011
East Timorese children malnourisment shocking – UNICEF
A recent UNICEF report shows that for the 8th year, East Timor has the 3rd hightest percentage of chronically malnourished children in the world – with only Afganistan and Yemen being slightly higher.
project: Lequeracabu'u East Timor, Macalaco East Timor, Maucale East Timor, OSTICO EAST TIMOR
COMMENTS: ADD A COMMENT
18 March 2011
Macalaco School Ground Breaking Ceremony
Simon, Jenny and Agostihno arrived at Macalaco school (a 4 hour drive from Dili) last Thursday, expecting a simple ceremony with a few people to officially allow the work to start on the new school building. Instead they were greeted by a welcoming line of school children who had been there since 9am and a day of speeches and performances by children and the villagers. Jenny delivered a speech in Tetum which the villagers loved.
The importance of the school building to the villagers and their gratitude had even Simon admitting to a tear or two in his eye. Mario, the builder, has worked with the community to demolish the old building and the project is all ready to go. The community support is fantastic for the building work and for the other things we hope to be able to help with in the village. Work is to start very soon.
     
project: Macalaco East Timor
COMMENTS: ADD A COMMENT
04 March 2011
Macalaco Ground Breaking Ceremony Next Week
The ground breaking ceremony for Macalaco School is scheduled for next Thursday. This ceremony is very important culturally to the Timorese and is essential before any work starts. A broken down building has already been demolished to make way for the school building and Mario the builder will be ready to start work after the ceremony.
project: Macalaco East Timor
COMMENTS: ADD A COMMENT
15 January 2011
Contract signed for Macalaco school
This week Mario, the builder we worked with on Lequeracab’u school, signed a contract to build a new three classroom building at Macalaco. The new building will allow all of the area’s children to be schooled and still manage the long walk home before sunset. The construction cost will be $US25,000 and is being funded by an Australian family- however we hope to raise extra funds so that we can help the village in other ways.
project: Macalaco East Timor
COMMENTS: ADD A COMMENT
|
