Around 80% of Timor-Leste’s population is dependent on subsistence agriculture for their livelihoods. Government mandated lockdowns have created a ‘silent emergency’ where families and communities have lost their main, if not their only, source of income.

Can you imagine what it feels like to choose between feeding your family or paying for your child’s education? This is what a parent in Timor-Leste is deciding right now – food OR school.

When a child is unable to continue their education, they remain trapped in the same cycle of poverty their parents and grandparents have experienced. Yet there is a solution…

Together we can keep Timorese communities safe from Covid.

Together we can help transform lives and build communities.

You can help...

Keep A Family Safe for $33
With face masks, sanitisers, soaps, towels, disinfectants, cleaning items and an instructional handwashing poster.

Provide Urgent Relief for $177
For families recovering from the floods with non-perishable food, cooking utensils and items to keep them safe from Covid.

Keep Schools Safe for $65
With soaps, towels, face masks for students, face shields for teachers, digital thermometers, cleaning products and handwashing posters.

Essential Workers keep Communities Safe for $240
Help Carmelites, Healthcare Centres and Community Scholarship students protect communities with digital thermometers, PPE gear, alcohol-based wipes, towels, face shields, sanitisers and community-based literature.

Young women make face masks for $20
By helping them to purchase materials to sew and sell reusable face masks and become self-sufficient.

Your Choice with the Gift of Education
So a young person can continue their education and break the generational poverty cycle they are born into.

For more information and to donate visit:

https://keep-communities-safe-from-covid.raisely.com/