PROJECT ‘Ossoluga’
25 October 2013
Kris Timor Bound Next Week
This time next week I will be in Timor with Graham, Simon and Stephen, the other Spend it Well founders. We’ll take a big road trip to visit Ossoluga School which is only a month from completion and also Sesal school (which we plan to start in a month or so). We’ll get to do one of my favourite things – giving packs of fabulous books, pencils etc to the school children, all sourced and shipped to us by Rotary Club of Unley.
These are photos of Ossoluga just before construction started – I’ll have more photos of progress next week.
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project: Ossoluga, Sesal
29 August 2013
Kirsty Sword Gusmao’s Homecoming
8 months after starting cancer treatment in Australia, Kirsty has returned to Timor-Leste with her and the Prime Minister’s 3 boys.
She was met by hundreds of people at the airport, many of them waving special flags.
  
project: Lequeracabu'u East Timor, Lospalos East Timor, Macalaco East Timor, Maucale East Timor, Ossoluga, OSTICO EAST TIMOR
07 August 2013
Timor Rain Clouds have an Architect Silver Lining
We’ve been waiting for the last 2 months for the rains to ease enough for our builder to get his trucks loaded with building supplies up to Ossoluga village. Normally the wet season would have ended by June, but it is still raining. This means the dirt track to Ossoluga is impassable.
But the delay has allowed our fabulous pro-bono architect Richard Briggs to spend time with the builder and revise the plans to increase the quality and utility of the school within the existing budget. He’s done things like teach the builder the best way to use the site and orient the building, removed the ceiling and added insulation to increase light and ventilation, increased the verandah size and added some panels in the roofing to allow natural light through.
So when this building is built (we’re poised to go as soon as rain breaks) it will be a vastly better structure which will last longer and is a much more pleasant place to learn in.
 
project: Ossoluga
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