PROJECT ‘Lequeracabu’u East Timor’
09 January 2013
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/
project: Lequeracabu'u East Timor, Lospalos East Timor, Macalaco East Timor, Maucale East Timor, ostico, OSTICO EAST TIMOR
28 November 2012
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 bamboo planking covering the aluminium walls and local rocks covering the cement base. Spend it Well will now work with the community to teach the children how to use the toilets and wash their hands. We’re hoping to get the fabulous MAC youth group from Dili to Festau school in the next few weeks and part of their educational performance will focus on the healthy use of the toilets. Our thanks to Rotary Port Melbourne for making this project possible.
 
project: Lequeracabu'u East Timor
08 September 2012
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 free toilets for the 60 school students. The contract has been signed and the area was pegged out when we visited the school. We are hoping these toilets can become prototypes for schools at all schools where we work.
 
project: Lequeracabu'u East Timor
29 August 2012
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 School is a British international school my kids went to in Abu Dhabi – 9,000 kilometres from East Timor. Two years ago, with the help of many mothers from Pearl Primary School, I brought over 100 shirts to Festau School where they had no uniforms. Very bizarre for Zoe, my 12 year old daughter, to see the children in her old school shirts!
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project: Lequeracabu'u East Timor
31 May 2012
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 on what the teachers learnt in the previous workshop. Once again bright and fabulous games feature in the teaching and were given to the teachers to take back to their schools. The feedback from the teachers has been fantastic.
     
project: Lequeracabu'u East Timor, Macalaco East Timor, Maucale East Timor, OSTICO EAST TIMOR
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