Tag: aid and development
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The perfect malae
Last night, at a party, I was telling an incredulous friend an anecdote about a foreigner I’d worked with in Dili who, despite two-plus years of living here and the relatively simplicity of the language, couldn’t speak a word of Tetun. “And that’s not even the worst bit,” I said, caught up in my own…
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A story of a school
A couple of weeks ago, I went on a field trip with UNICEF to a small school in the hills outside Gleno town in Timor-Leste’s coffee-rich Ermera municipality. I was writing a story about new school buildings UNICEF has funded, which I’ve now done a couple of times in different villages across the country. This…
Sophie Rai Liur 