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This year we are supporting José, a third-year student at Baucau Teacher's College in East Timor, he will be starting his fourth year next month. He hasn’t received any support so far for his teaching degree but this year is struggling. Margie, our contact at Baucau Teachers College, said he is a lovely man who is very involved in life at the college. It costs $900 AUD for one year at the college and through staff donations we support approximately 3 students a year. Collectively, the $3 AUD staff donate every fortnight really does make a big difference for these students.

Margie has passed on the following from José:

“My complete name is José Felipe da Silva Belo. I live in Baucau. I am 32 years old and am the first child in our family. My parents are farmers and grow enough to support our family needs. I wanted choose to take a different road by becoming a teacher because where I live doesn’t have enough teachers. My plan is to support my local school by helping to improve the teaching there. I need to complete four years to obtain full teaching qualifications.

I am very grateful for the support of the teachers at Tenison Woods school, and promise to do my very best during the coming year.”

Bernadette Fisher