Two Saburai schools, Timor Leste – special Christmas gifts for the school children 2017 – Mission for the Poor: Serving the people of Flores and Timor Leste

This Christmas was special for the school children of the two schools at Saburai. Through my visit to Saburai in December this year, and via the generosity of several donors from Australia, I was able to provide to each student (around 450 children), new school uniforms, and a special gift of an exercise book, a pencil and a sharpener, wrapped in gift wrapping paper. There are two schools in Saburai, one at the start of the village (at the bottom) and the other higher up in the mountains at the top of the village.

In this post, we illustrate the purchasing of the uniforms and school supplies from two stores in Dili (the school uniforms were locally made in Dili). The school supplies were then wrapped at the brothers’ house in Maliana, prior to taking them up to Saburai, after which the uniforms and school supplies were then given to each child at the two schools. In addition, we presented a gift of office supplies to each of the two principals of the schools.

This whole community is mostly extremely poor, and the children were very, very pleased to receive the gifts. As we look at the school children of Saburai may we feel blessed to have our own gifts that we have been given, and appreciate these children for their witness of Christ through their material poverty.

At this time of Christmas and the closing of 2017, may we thank you for checking out our website and following us over the last 12 months and we wish you every blessing and peace for the upcoming year.

Blessings to all

See you in 2018

Trevor and Tina