Timor-Leste

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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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Widely considered a successful peacebuilding case-study, Timor-Leste's history and struggle has been documented, analyzed and used as an example for policy and peacebuilding approaches worldwide. Although researchers suggest that Timor-Leste was almost entirely reliant on foreign assistance, others highlight that important

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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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