In addition to having a Christmas celebration for the children of the Saburai village, MOP Timor Leste fed and rejoiced with the local children in Maliana, where the brothers currently live in a rented house.
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Despite restrictions with Covid throughout 2021, the MOP mission in Maliana made it a special Christmas for the people of nearby Saburai. Two Christmas events were held, one for the children of the village and another for the elderly.
This post provides a glimpse of the Christmas event where Christ’s love for the many poor children in Saburai is manifested through the actions of the brothers and the generous donors that assist from here in Australia. The generosity of donors here is an integral part of assisting the poor in Timor Leste.
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After so many months, the shipping container from Brisbane finally arrived in Dili and was opened on 12 October 2021.
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In late October this year, three brothers were assigned to the Timor Leste mission. One of the brothers you will know well, direct from Jamaica and previously one of the pioneer brothers of the Flores Mission,
Continue reading “Surprise assignment: Br Nerlito is now vocation’s officer for the Timor Leste Mission”
This year we have been preparing cartons of supplies to go in a Rotary container to the Maliana mission in Timor Leste.
Continue reading “Appeal for Timor Leste – 25 July 2021”
It has been several months now since our last post and unfortunately this post urgently reports on the tragic flooding that has occurred in the mountains and in Dili on Timor island, and in Flores over the first week of April.
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The Christmas period in Saburai and Maliana was joyful, as Covid restrictions had been momentarily lifted, which allowed the distribution of goods from 10 cartons shipped into Dili via a Rotary sponsored container, as reported in posts dated 22 and 27 November. These goods included new clothing and school supplies for the children of Saburai, village wheel chairs (courtesy of Rotary) for the physically challenged in Saburai and Maliana, and blankets (courtesy of QANTAS) for the elderly at Saburai.
Continue reading “An update on Saburai village over the 2020 Christmas period – 10 January 2021”
September 2020 saw the arrival of the container (containing the 12 cartons, village wheelchairs, blankets and walkers) into
Continue reading “Cartons delivered to Timor Leste during Covid-19 year: PART II – Arrival in Dili”
The year 2020 started off like any other year as we prepared tea chest cartons to go via a container to the mission at
Continue reading “Rotary does a fine job again – Cartons delivered to Timor Leste during Covid-19 year: PART I”
Mission for the Poor: Serving the people of Flores and Timor Leste 