East Timor Educational Aid Project

THE IDEAL:

To give a devastated country a facility that will help bring better educational opportunities to at least some of its children in the firmly held belief that improved standards of education will provide a foundation upon which the East Timorese people will for the first time in many centuries build and control their own destiny

PROJECT DETAILS:

Replace the roof on the Palaka School.

Refurbish classrooms with doors, partitions and furniture.

Provide clean drinking water, ablution and toilet facilities.

Provide an initial supply of student materials (paper, pens, etc.)

Establish continuing supplies of literacy materials

METHOD OF PROCEDURE:

1	Establish relationship with Timor Aid seeking their approval, direction and assistance with such things as accommodation, food, interpreter, power, transport of materials, personnel and etc.)
2a	Obtain materials, prefabricate where possible, place in container in our location, ship to Dili, East Timor or alternatively,
2b	Purchase materials and other supplies in Darwin, transport to Dili by barge.
3	Several District 9640 Rotarians fly to Dili to supervise construction by Timorese people that we pay for their labour.

REQUISITES:

Trusses	Prefabricated steel trusses with steel or wooden purlins or wooden trusses with wooden batons. Gable end trusses to have infill of waterproof material Colourbond corrugated iron, guttering and spouting
Tanks	Polyurethane tanks with prefabricated steel stands One tank for drinking water and other/s for toilets and ablutions
Partitions	Wooden frames, covered one side with waterproof structural play
Doors	Simple ledger doors, prefabricated or made on site. Supply necessary door furnishings (hinges and locks)
Toilets	Male and female prefabricated building structure with enviro-cycle toilet systems
Paintings	Finish with light green weatherproof acrylic paint
Furnishings	Provide furnishings, desks, blackboards and cupboards