Hope Orphanage, Timor-Leste
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Just like most other orphanages, the HOPE Orphanage in Timor-Leste has no major wealthy benfactor, or other magical source of continuous funding. This lens has been developed to generate interest in the Orphanage, and Timor-Leste in general.
The main aim of the site is to give you just enough information to whet your appetite to a point where you feel you must visit the orphanage blog at http://hopeintimor.blogspot.com, where you can find out more about life in Timor-Leste, and the children and their carers in particular.
It's also about money for the kids - we take donations through PayPal, you can help out through madly clicking away at the discrete Google advertisements just beneath the banner photo (we can say that here, but not on the blog), or you can download a sponsorship form and sponsor a child directly. It's up to you.
And if that's not your scene either, we'd like to say thanks for visiting. All we ask is this - tell someone you know about this site.
Why the name 'HOPE'?
Most people assume the word 'HOPE' in the name of the orphanage is self-explanatory, if not a little corny and obvious. You might be surprised to find out there's a little more to it than the sentiment.H.O.P.E. in our case is also a contraction of the phrase 'To Honour Our PromisE.'
In 1942, between forty and sixty thousand East Timorese died helping Australian troops with their efforts in WWII.
As the Australian soldiers left East Timor, leaflets were dropped bearing the following two phrases in thanks
"Your friends will not forget you"
" ... I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers (sisters) of mine, you did it for Me." (Matt. 24:40)
This orphanage is about honouring that promise, and we thought you might like to know.
Timor-Leste bloggers and related sites
People blogging from, or about Timor-Leste
- Dili-gence
- Random observations from an English speaking foreigner in Dili, Timor-Leste
- East Timor & Indonesian Action Network
- The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network/U.S. (ETAN) is a U.S.-based grassroots organization working in solidarity with the peoples of East Timor and Indonesia.
- Dili-Dallying (Two years in Timor-Leste)
- The concerted reportage of a couple of Australian Volunteer International volunteers as they experience two years in Timor-Leste.
- tumbleweed in timor lorosae
- tumbling tots from a weed blown by the pacific winds into timor lorosae
- Timor-Leste's Underwater Wonderland
- Links and information for divers interested in the amazing reefs of Timor Leste.
- Jason Lee's photography in Timor
- Links to Jason's photo-essays on The Hope Orphanage
- Life's a Journey
- We live a fragile life in this ever changing world. Who can boast of tomorrow? For we do not even know what tomorrow holds. Let us then live life with joy - the joy of sharing, giving and loving; especially to the fatherless, the poor and the sick.
Viva Timor-Leste!
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Hope Orphanage Blog
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Recommended books on international development
A recurrent theme is the critical importance of the following instrumental freedoms in development:
1. political freedoms;
2. economic facilities;
3. social opportunities;
4. transparency guarantees; and
5. protective security.
This is the framework proposed by Amartya Sen in 'Development as Freedom'. It might look abstract as a distinct little list, but we can give it some context.
Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means.
Political freedoms (in the form of free speech and elections) help to promote economic security. Social opportunities (in the form of education and health facilities) facilitate economic participation. Economic facilities (in the form of opportunities for participation in trade and production) can help generate personal abundance as well as public resources for social facilities. Freedoms of different kinds can strengthen one another.
And these are the freedoms we hope to promote through education of the orphaned children in East Timor.
by Jeremy Ballenger
Timor during late 2004 - I was incredibly lucky to spend time at the orphanage with the founders, Isa and Ina Bradridge. As a result I have set up... more »
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