We Up-Skill Rural Health Care Workers
10 rural health care workers from 6 different districts come together for 3 days upskilling, peer support, mentoring and restocking their essential kits. With a strong focus on maternal and child health, our supercharged HCW acts more like clinical doula’s. We...
Still Missing Mana Lucia’s Vibrant Face at Maluk
We sure are missing our social health worker Mana Lucia’s vibrant face at MT. Thanks to a *Rotary exchange* program she is off in Townsville for ten weeks doing a social work placement in a women’s refuge. Such a wonderful experience. We look forward to her return and...
Celebrate Women’s Week – HIV talks and more
This is Suco Bikeli, Aldeia Uaro-Ana in Atauro. They invited us and Empreza Diak to join with them in celebrating women’s week. It was a very special week for them and we are happy and honoured to be a part of it. They specifically requested to discuss HIV and...
Learning HIV and reproductive health
Continuing the celebration for women’s week, they were off to Suco Beloi to share and discuss information surrounding issues with HIV and reproductive health. This time our Hakbi’it Feto Group was joined by both women and men, junior high students and SOLS...
Going online: training Australian subcommittee via Skype
Program update and engagement with our Australian subcommittee. Such a achievement to have our Timorese midwives, social health workers and Healthcare workers discussing the issues with senior staff in Australia on skype. Holding their own in discussion . A Senior...
Women’s Health and Social Care Program
The Women’s Health & Social Care program, largely funded by the Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART), also keeps up a frenetic pace. Regular visits to five communities in the districts of Timor-Leste have resumed, leading Women’s Clubs in each. A sixth community...