PROJECT ‘Lequeracabu’u East Timor’
12 July 2010
The School is underway!!
It’s fantastic to be able to report that work is underway on the Lequeracabu’u School – so all of the extraordinary White Party money and goodwill is being put to great use. Construction should take 3 months which gives an estimated finish date of early October. Keep watching for progress updates!
project: Lequeracabu'u East Timor
01 July 2010
Sod Turning Ceremony at Lequeracabu’u!
The Lequeracabu’u school project is off and running with the offical sod turning ceremony on Tuesday attended by the villagers, the builders, the Education Ministry, Jenny Coles (Kirsty’s right hand woman) and two of Kirsty and the Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao’s boys. The construction contract was formally signed and work is scheduled to be completed in three months. The kids loved the soccer balls which the Gusmao boys took for them. More information to follow soon – but for today some great photos.
 Alex Gusmao turning the sod
 Jenny and some kids at new school site
 Kay Olok Gusmao digging foundations
 Soccer with the new balls
project: Lequeracabu'u East Timor
30 June 2010
Kid helping other kids
You’ve got to believe that there is good in the world when children help other children. Oliver and Emily’s parents came to the White Party and after hearing about Lequeracabu’u School, the kids decided that they wanted to help. So they had a bake sale which they conducted with great enthusiasm and effort (this at age 7 and 5), donating all of the money which they raised. Fantastic work!
project: Lequeracabu'u East Timor
26 June 2010
Wet season is finished – Lequeracabu’u set to go
With the wet season finally behind us, Jenny met with Mario the builder on Monday to finalise everything. The building work should take 3 months – we’ll have an exact start date in the next few days. The photo is from a previous meeting and is of Spend it Well’s Agostinho, Simon and Jenny as well as Lequeracabu’u’s village chief, Mario the builder and Januario, from the Ministry of Education. Can’t wait to see holes being dug and concrete being poured!
project: Lequeracabu'u East Timor
15 June 2010
School shirts for Lequeracabu’u
The pile of white school shirts on my dining table is growing! Pearl Primary School in Abu Dhabi is changing their school uniform next year and a fabulous mother has gathered hundreds of the old (but good) ones for me to take to Lequeracabu’u. Another fab mother has taken 60 longsleeved shirts to a tailor and is paying for them to be shortened to be suitable for Timor heat. Latest count is over 200 which means we’ll be able to give 2 to each child. With luck we’ll also have extras to take to Ostico school as well.
project: Lequeracabu'u East Timor
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