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Timor-Leste

9 December 2011

Red Cross volunteers save lives following crash in Timor-Leste

A team of well-trained Red Cross Volunteers recently demonstrated their importance to the community by delivering life-saving first aid to victims of a horrific collision in regional Timor-Leste.
Decade of Action for Road Safety: Red Cross youth put the stripes back into Timor Leste’s Zebra crossings
10 May 2011

Decade of Action for Road Safety: Red Cross youth put the stripes back into Timor Leste’s Zebra crossings

Timor Leste Red Cross has recently launched a road safety campaign which they plan to roll out across the country in 2011.
Timor-Leste: Who’ll save the youth?
17 December 2007

Timor-Leste: Who’ll save the youth?

The road to Los Palos, like most routes in Timor-Leste is both breathtakingly beautiful and incredibly rough on your bones.
Timor-Leste: taking health messages into communities
27 September 2007

Timor-Leste: taking health messages into communities

Elda da Cost Soares Guterres, 26 is small, pretty and sprightly.
Timor-Leste: Red Cross assists thousands displaced by violence
26 May 2006

Timor-Leste: Red Cross assists thousands displaced by violence

Over the past several weeks, volunteers from the Timor-Leste Red Cross Society, or Cruz Vermelha de Timor-Leste (CVTL), have been providing support to thousands of ...
1 February 2006

Timor-Leste Red Cross takes health to the villages

The lemon-yellow butterflies, hovering in billowing clouds above the long and winding roads in Timor-Leste (formerly East Timor), tell it all: the rain has arrived, ...
Cruel winds in Ainaro, Timor-Leste
27 January 2006

Cruel winds in Ainaro, Timor-Leste

As the nippy Christmas air made way for the January chill, the folk of Ainaro District in Timor-Leste remarked what a good harvest they would have in 2006.
6 December 2005

Volunteers Clean Up in Timor-Leste

Monday mornings are usually marked by a certain hustle and bustle, as the weekend is over and everyday routines once again prevail.
2 February 2005

Fresh start in Timor-Leste

Coffee was the first obstacle Sebastiao Da Costa had to face when he and his Red Cross team started a water project in Edy, a community about two hours’ drive from ...
15 April 2004

Mending East Timor’s broken families

The euphoria of freedom is over in East Timor as Asia's poorest country struggles with the enormous challenges of independence.
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