PROJECT ‘Macalaco East Timor’
07 February 2013
1000s of Stationery Items to head to Timor
Thanks to the amazing Rotary Club of Unley SA, 2200 exercise books, 1000 pencils, 80 backpacks and heaps of erasers, coloured pencils, sharpeners etc are packed and ready to be shipped to Timor. Once in Dili, they’ll be loaded onto trucks and taken by Agostinho on a long journey to the remote schools where we work. For schools with almost no resources, these will be like gold. Thanks also to Officeworks at Prospect and Keswick for their generous contributions.
 
project: Lequeracabu'u East Timor, Lospalos East Timor, Macalaco East Timor, Maucale East Timor, OSTICO EAST TIMOR
05 February 2013
Welcome to the people of Grassroots
Grassroots are a group of people in Australia who commit $50 each a month and meet quarterly to decide where to direct their money for maximum impact. We’re delighted to have just received a donation from them and will be sure to Spend it Well!
project: Lequeracabu'u East Timor, Lospalos East Timor, Macalaco East Timor, Maucale East Timor, OSTICO EAST TIMOR
31 January 2013
$700 donation doubles school garden and buys chickens
A $700 donation from an Australian family has meant Macalaco School can expand it’s fabulous school garden from 1 to 2 hectares. It’s also paid for chickens to be used to produce eggs for the school kids. This garden is highly prized by the village – how happy does the school director look to receive the money?
  
project: Macalaco 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
01 September 2012
Fabulous Macalaco Garden
Hi, I’m Zoe Webb and I am 12. A couple of weeks ago I visited East Timor for the first time. One of my favourite times of my trip was visiting the Macalaco gardens. Spend It Well gave the school $500 dollars to make a garden for the kids and the community (as well as building them a school). When they told me about the garden I was expecting few banana trees and nothing special but what was there completely blew me away! There were rows and rows of cabbages, banana trees, pineapples, spring onions, bok choy and lots of other veggies. What was most surprising (and amazing) was that these people grow better produce than we do, in rock hard ground. What Spend It Well and the Macalaco community have done will feed most of the village, and give them something different to eat for a change.
   
project: Macalaco East Timor
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