Tag: Timor
Subsidiarity and Development in Timor-Leste
July 27, 2018Mary MacKillop Today’s Timorese staff have trained thousands of teachers, approximately 15 per cent of the entire teaching population, on how to deliver the national curriculum using innovation and creativity.
Mary's courage alive in Timor-Leste
July 3, 2018This is an important reminder of what communities and individuals can achieve when empowered to make their own decisions.
Changing Lives through friendship and faith
October 18, 2016Education remains a key challenge for Timor-Leste’s future development. In a country where nearly 50% of the population cannot read or write, the need to provide quality education is urgent.
Bringing hope through education, health & livelihoods
October 18, 2016Education Thanks to dedicated Australian supporters like you, MMI has purchased a bus which is being converted into a Mobile Learning Centre in Timor-Leste. It will be fitted out with Tetum literacy books, music equipment and other educational resources. The bus will visit schools, orphanages and disability centres in marginalised communities with MMI’s trainers using […]
Mary's World: Letter from MMI's CEO - Kirsty Robertson
September 30, 2016Dear friends and supporters of MMI
Earlier this year Pope Francis encouraged us to be hope for the future. He said to be that hope we needed two things.
Firstly, we needed a memory: of our people, our family and where we come from, the memory of our journey and what we received from those closest to you.