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East Timor
Overview
While the violence and bloodshed which saw the birth of East Timor has ended, the struggle of the East Timorese people to rebuild their country as a peaceful, just and stable democracy is just beginning.
Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA maintains an office in Dili staffed by both Australian and Timorese personnel which oversees an extensive program of capacity building and training, including
- vocational education
- establishing and strengthening trade unions
- literacy training for rural people
- media training especially community radio and print
- strengthening East Timorese community organisations
- support to the University of Timor Loro Sa'e library.
A number of volunteers have also assisted the program over the past year, providing valuable skills in labour rights, carpentry, library training, IT and community development. The program supports 11 Timorese partner organisations and also co-ordinates with a wide range of organisations, unions and training institutions in Australia and internationally.
Strategy
Our main strategy is to assist the East Timorese government to reduce poverty and build to country's capacity to govern a peaceful, democratic and independent East Timor. Thus far, Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA has facilitated over $3 million worth in aid to East Timor with the generous support of its members, unions, the general public and the Australian government.
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History
Loke Kurtina - East Timor Theatre Retreat 2005
In one room they are they are pulling on red noses, in another they are balancing sweat-soaked bodies, on the terrace they are scripting dialogues and in the garage they are busy with scissors and cellophane creating shadow puppets. East Timor’s first theatre retreat is in full swing and wandering from workshop to workshop one can’t help but be swept up in the creative buzz....
Capacity Building for Community Organisations 2001-2004
The East Timor NGO Forum (FONGTIL) is an association of over 270 East Timorese human rights, environmental and development organisations (both local and international), formed to provide a peak council, a common voice and strong lobby group for these organisations. It is the East Timorese equivalent of the Australian Council For International Development....
Projects
Timor Leste: Peace and Reconciliation Take Centre Stage
On 28 April 2006 violence reemerged in Timor Leste, when a peaceful protest by dissatisfied soldiers descended into widespread unrest. Following this, the nation was thrown into months of political instability, riots and fear. Over 30 people were killed. Houses and offices were looted and burnt. ...
LEARNING TO READ IN THE RAIN – Literacy for Women in East Timor
Uabubo – a village set in the dramatic mountain landscape of East Timor, on the central spine running down the length of the country.Walk a few kilometers up the road from Uabubo and you find yourself standing at a point where the land drops away on both sides – to Viqueque on the south coast and Baucau on the north coast. You can see for miles in both directions – rolling hills with mountains in the background, covered in early morning mists. In the wet season it is lush and green with corn crops, cattle and horses grazing in the distance. An amazing place to live, if you have the leisure to stop and appreciate its beauty....
Vocational Training & Capacity Building
The Knua Buka Hatene ("Place for learning/knowing" in Tetum) Vocational Training Centre opened on 23 November 2001 with four training rooms and one large shed attached for heavy mechanical and carpentry training. The training centre was built with the support of the CFMEU and 14 construction companies....
Timor-Leste Donor Report 2007-08 - Strengthening Trade Unions
Read Union Aid Abroad's full report to donors and updates on this project. ...
Timor-Leste Donor Report 2007-08 - Tempo Semanal newspaper
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Timor-Leste Donor Report 2007-08 - Library at the National University
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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER - EAST TIMOR’S HOPE
An independent weekly newspaper has arisen from the ashes of last year’s turmoil in East Timor. Tempo Semanal's founder, Jose Belo, has been a TV and print journalist since independence. Belo says the team is distributing at least one copy to every village in the country, thus reaching all districts and sub-districts around the country.Staff from Australia’s Fairfax Media, publisher of The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian Financial Review and many other newspapers, are supporting this newspaper venture in East Timor through donations. ...
Building Community Radio
Community Radio is a powerful medium in Timor due to the literacy issues of the community and the passion for the historic and local language Tetum. Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA is supporting two community radio stations in East Timor. ...
East Timor 2006-07 Donor Report
Union Aid Abroad - APHEDA is assisting a number of projects in East Timor including vocational skills training (carpentry, blacksmithing for farming tools, sewing and tailoring), literacy training especially for older rural women who received no education, assistance to two community radio stations, assistance to the National University Library and assistance to the East Timor trade union movement, the Konfederasaun Sindicatu Timor Leste (KSTL)....
Strengthening Trade Unions
Union Aid Abroad–APHEDA together with the ICFTU-APRO, the ACTU and a number of Australian unions, are assisting the formation and strengthening of unions in East Timor. ...
Women's Literacy and Civic Education
Almost two thirds of adult women in East Timor have never attended any kind of school, and for those who have, it is often just for a year or two. A high proportion of older East Timorese women (and men) are illiterate, and if they are to participate in the reconstruction, and share in the development of East Timor, literacy and language training is essential. ...
East Timor University Library Donor Report 2006-2007
Since 2000, Union Aid Abroad - APHEDA has been assisting the Library at the Universidad National Timor Loros'ae (UNTL)....
Latest East Timor News
KSTL Congress - 12 May 2009
The Timor-Leste Trade Union Confederation, KSTL, held their third congress from 26th – 27th February 2009, supported by Union Aid Abroad - APHEDA. ...
Taking workers’ issues to the community: Expressional Arts Project, Timor-Leste - 02 February 2009
May Day 2008 was a chance for the performers involved in an Expressional Arts Project to perform theatre relating to some of the issues and challenges facing workers in Timor-Leste. ...
‘Let’s work together’: the power of print in Timor-Leste - 17 November 2008
The Timorese art collective and leading youth group, Gembel, has held its first exhibition in Dili, Timor Leste, with the assistance of Union Aid Abroad-APHEDA....
Wind-up radio project in Timor-Leste - 07 November 2008
Communities in rural Timor-Leste will gain much needed access to news and information through the distribution of 80 Freeplay Lifeline solar and wind-up radios. ...
A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER - EAST TIMOR’S HOPE - 26 April 2007
An independent weekly newspaper has arisen from the ashes of last year’s turmoil in East Timor. Tempo Semanal's founder, Jose Belo, has been a TV and print journalist since independence. Belo says the team is distributing at least one copy to every village in the country, thus reaching all districts and sub-districts around the country. ...
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