Day 3 april 2021, a normal Saturday day like any other, yet such a fateful day for some Timorese who never imagined that this would be their last day of life.! the next day, 4 of April, shortly after midnight, it started to rain heavily and, about, 4 hours more…
I remember my childhood with great nostalgia, watching the Timorese children play and their toys. The families, in Timor-Leste, are numerous and older children begin to feel, very early, the hard of life, the weight of responsibility when contributing to housework. Despite the daily tasks assigned to you…
at the end of two years, teaching in Maliana, my wife received an affirmative response to her mobility request and was seconded to Liquiçá, a city to 35 km da capital, where we stayed for two years.
It was a very different experience to drive the car about 45 minutes to Dili, a capital, compared to 4 what time it was when I left Maliana.
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A while back, I promised to tell you how I found out about Timor-Leste, but if you have read our purpose, you might already know that… and it was Luke’s passion that inspired me and made me love the Timorese people even more. When he first came from Timor, Luke (my then friend, now husband…
Setting foot on Timorese soil, We set out to discover a new reality. We quickly realized that we had landed in another world.! We were so eager to get in touch and get to know this people who suffered so much, because, years ago, we accompanied, through the mass media, several massacres to which he was subjected in the struggle for the long-awaited freedom… Timor…
Timor-Leste is situated on the eastern part of the island of Timor, in Southeast Asia. It also includes the nearby islands of Atauro, Jaco, and Oecusse – which is an enclave on the northwestern side of Indonesian, West Timor. With 13 districts and 65 sub-districts, the country covers an area of about 15 000 km²….