{"id":1451,"date":"2021-04-05T11:16:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T11:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2021-04-05T11:16:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T11:16:33","slug":"devastating-floods-in-east-timor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/?p=1451","title":{"rendered":"Devastating Floods in East Timor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a message from Simon Fenby, one of Spend it Well\u2019s Directors who lives in Dili.<\/p>\n<p><em>East Timor has been devastated by the worst floods people can remember. \u00a0I spent yesterday morning on my roof in Dili as the water rushed through my house. \u00a0Today, I\u2019ve been in the villages where streets have become rivers and people\u2019s houses have had over a metre of water through them. \u00a0The villages have no water and no electricity. \u00a0They can&#8217;t even try to clean their homes of the mud which covers everything. \u00a023 people are confirmed as having died so far and that number is expected to rise. \u00a0These are people whose economy was destroyed by the Covid pandemic and have been in lockdown for the last month because of a surging number of cases. \u00a0I\u2019ve seen men and women just crying, unable to know how to move forward. I walked through a village to deliver some supplies just before writing this email and had people pleading for help. \u00a0I have no idea how people will recover, but for now the priority is to help them immediately by giving them bottled water, food and clothes. \u00a0 The Timorese are proud and resilient people and they will get through this but now they need support. \u00a0If you can help, please\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/donate.communityfoundation.org.au\/spend-it-well\"><em>donate<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>here.\u00a0 Spend it Well will use 100% of your money on the ground to immediately buy food, water and clothes for people who need it desperately.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/09650BB3-0264-4B04-89CC-B76EE70CC6BD.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1452\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/09650BB3-0264-4B04-89CC-B76EE70CC6BD-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/F705FC33-F928-4AAA-914F-3BA6880FB80F.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/F705FC33-F928-4AAA-914F-3BA6880FB80F-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/BD535D0B-3F71-4DA4-9142-1131BFC43588.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1454\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/BD535D0B-3F71-4DA4-9142-1131BFC43588-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a message from Simon Fenby, one of Spend it Well\u2019s Directors who lives in Dili. 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