Timor-Leste

Travel Photography Scholarship 2012entry

TIMOR-LESTE | Saturday, 12 January 2013 | Views [796] | View Larger Image

Located in Dili, the capital of Timor-Leste, Bairo Pite Clinic is focused on 'community health care for the poorest of the poor in Timor-Leste', and has operated since 1999. This image was captured in a small village about four hours outside of Dili during one of the irregular mobile clinics. The young Australian medical student tended to 'walk-ins' that came to the thatched roofed structure beside the road. Clients ranged from TB patients, to children with infected insect bites.

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The Women’s Vocational Training; Repairing Sewing Machines, is the only all female project aimed at encouraging young women to participate productively in their communities through vocational trainings, capacity building workshops and empowerment activities. It is designed to encourage young women to form income generation groups to have access to adequate income opportunities, and provide opportunities to participate through leadership roles in their groups and communities.

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This image was taken at Becora Prison in Dili, Timor-Leste on a visit led by a coalition of church members, government agencies, national and international NGOs and civil society that collaboratively work for child rights in Timor-Leste. The incarcerated boys, who in this image stood before a panel of Child Rights advocates, had either committed murder or rape according to the Prison Director. Often their human rights including access to formal education and opportunities are denied. The Coalition's purpose to the prison visit, is to ensure the government agencies are held accountable and respect children's human rights base on the fundamental Principe of the Rights of the Child, as mentioned in the Convention on the Rights of the Child and Timor-Leste's National Policy.

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