PROJECT ‘Maucale 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
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
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
23 May 2012
In Dili for East Timor’s 10th anniversary
It’s not every day you get to be part of a country’s 10th anniversary celebrations.
What was the most amazing part of it for me? Not the red, black and yellow flags and bunting festooned all around Dili. Not being at the same events as the Indonesian and Portugese Presidents – or spotting the Governor General in stylish pastel pink. The sight that will stay with me for a long time is that of thousands of people lining both sides of the road as they walked late at night to Tasi Tolu, the area on the outskirts of Dili where a ceremony was held at midnight on the eve of the anniversary. Over 100,000 people gathered around the stage, trying to catch a glimpse of the speeches on a few large screens and marvelling at the fireworks which concluded it. For such a young country, where memories of violence are still recent, the celebrations were of huge significance.
    
project: Lequeracabu'u East Timor, Macalaco East Timor, Maucale East Timor, OSTICO EAST TIMOR
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