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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
Working Women's Centre Timor-Leste
An exciting new initiative is taking hold in Timor, with the launch of the country’s first ever Working Women’s Centre planned for September 1st, 2011....
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
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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. ...
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
Hotel workers in Timor denied contracts - 04 February 2011
There is growing alarm that management of a leading hotel in Dili have chosen to dismiss trained and long serving staff instead of following local law and providing written contracts for their workers. ...
US Mission admits mistake - 04 February 2011
Thanks to local and international pressure, the US Mission in Timor-Leste has conceded that their staff do in fact have the right to join a union. ...
The power of multiplicity - 20 October 2010
In 2001, soon after the nation had overwhelmingly voted for its independence, a small workshop in central Dili was buzzing with anticipation. ...
Is Timor-Leste the new NIDA? - 07 October 2010
If you want to be an actor don’t move to Hollywood, come to Timor-Leste! ...
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. ...
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