Festau School’s two new toilets, funded by Rotary Port Melbourne, are now finished. The toilets are water free and the structure was designed to blend in with its surroundings with
There are no toilets at Festau School – or elsewhere in the village. That’s about to change as Rotary Port Melbourne has funded the $2,000 necessary to build two water
Hi, I’m Zoe Webb and I am 12. A couple of weeks ago I visited East Timor for the first time. One of my favourite times of my trip was visiting the Macalaco
We arrived at the tiny mountain village of Festau last week to be greeted by 60 children in school shirts with the “Pearl Primary School” logo on the pocket. The Pearl Primary
Imagine 130 school children in a remote village in the mountains of East Timor having a music and dance based youth rights group from Dili arrive to perform for them. We were
Lospalos school was opened with great success this week. After a bone shaking 7 hour drive to Lospalos we visited the school the night before the ceremony. There were people
The work is all done at Lospalos school – on both the new building and the old buildings which we refurbished. Now it’s time for the official opening and a celebration.
While our plan was just to build an additional 3 classroom building at Lospalos, we haven’t been able to ignore the state of the two existing classrooms at the school.
Elvino and his team of builders have done a fabulous job with Lospalos’ new 3 classroom school building which is not far from finished. Once the windows and doors are in,