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Empowering Timor-Leste Education

Timor-Leste is ranked 133 out of 188 countries on the Human Development Index. Australian Marist Solidarity's priority in Timor-Leste is education, focusing on teacher training, school renovations, and local education initiatives to support over 1.2 million people. In 2016, $502,473 was provided to projects in Timor-Leste, with 41% going to teacher training and 20% to school renovations. Key highlights included 55 new teachers graduating from teacher training and a new classroom building providing space for 233 students.

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Empowering Timor-Leste Education

Timor-Leste is ranked 133 out of 188 countries on the Human Development Index. Australian Marist Solidarity's priority in Timor-Leste is education, focusing on teacher training, school renovations, and local education initiatives to support over 1.2 million people. In 2016, $502,473 was provided to projects in Timor-Leste, with 41% going to teacher training and 20% to school renovations. Key highlights included 55 new teachers graduating from teacher training and a new classroom building providing space for 233 students.

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TIMOR-LESTE POSITION PAPER

$1,000,000 AUD

133 OUT OF 188 COUNTRIES

1.2 MILLION (2014)


Renovations
Local
Initiatives 51%
Strategic Directions
Australian Marist Solidarity’s priority
in Timor-Leste is education in all its
forms. We seek to support and
strengthen the education sector
through a multipronged intervention
aimed at:
Providing quality teacher training
at
the Marist-run Teacher
Training
College (ICFP)
Improving learning
environments by renovating
and rebuilding rural
schools
Supporting non-formal local
education initiatives that
supplement existing formal
education pathways

Our partners are focused on


achieving Sustainable Development
Goal Four by ensuring that
education is available and equitable
to all. We focus our work in Baucau
and the surrounding districts and
align our approach with national
targets and priorities within the
Diocese of Baucau.
Commitment
A total of $502,473 was sent to
Timor-Leste projects in 2016 in the
following categories.
Teacher 8%
41%
Training
School
20 young people learnt
carpentry skills that boosts
their employability
Program Highlights
55 newly qualified teachers
graduated Our Vision
from ICFP Australian Marist Solidarity will
A three-classroom building continue to support non-formal local
was built at Abafala Catholic
education programs that provide a
Primary School providing 233
safe place for children to learn as we
students with an enhanced
believe in the power of grassroots
learning environment, one
initiatives. Injecting new teachers
of two such projects in 2016 into the fledgling education sector is
34 children with a disability critical, as is the upgrading of school
were part of the KATILOSA
infrastructure, and both will remain
community-based
priorities into the future. A 15-year
rehabilitation program presence in Timor-Leste will be
Over 500 children attended after- boosted in 2017 when work begins
school classes across three on the construction of the first Marist
centres School.

* Source: United Nations Development Programme 2015 [Link] |


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Updated December 2016

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