{"id":71,"date":"2008-10-09T07:36:18","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T07:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/?p=71"},"modified":"2010-05-03T11:22:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T11:22:49","slug":"ostico-project-starts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"Ostico Project Starts"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Education Department and Kirsty Sword Gusmao have come up with a list of schools on the \u201cdesperate\u201d list. Simon, Jenny Coles (Kirsty\u2019s right hand woman) and Agostinho Soares who is a Timorese advisor in the Prime Minister\u2019s office, have been out to visit one of them in a little village called Ostico three hours outside the capital, Dili. I received Simon\u2019s report yesterday. It\u2019s not the neat, clean package we were looking for. And it looks like it would cost a lot more than the amount we were originally planning.<\/p>\n

But after looking at the pictures and reading the report I knew there was no way I wanted to move past this and look for something else that fits our \u201ccriteria\u201d better. The photos show a building that looks fit only for demolition, with no windows and a rotting ceiling. It is sitting in the middle of an unbroken stretch of red dirt broken only by a u shaped piece of pipe embedded in the ground which seems to constitute the playground. Twisted upside down on the pipe, dressed in faded and worn clothes is the most gorgeous child with a smile stretching from ear to ear.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve just heard back from Graham and from Bruce, who is now part of the team. They feel exactly the same as Stephen and I. So – Ostico school is going to be our first project. I think we\u2019ve also learnt our first lesson \u2013 things don\u2019t come in simple and neat packages in countries that have been through the things East Timor has.<\/p>\n

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The Education Department and Kirsty Sword Gusmao have come up with a list of schools on the \u201cdesperate\u201d list. Simon, Jenny Coles (Kirsty\u2019s right hand woman) and Agostinho Soares who is a Timorese advisor in the Prime Minister\u2019s office, have been out to visit one of them in a little village called Ostico three hours […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spenditwell.com\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}