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1. Education

1) Children’s education. Including school fees, books, uniform, medicines, hostel requirements.

Primary and junior high school (i.e. compulsory education)
Special education (i.e. education for the handicapped, of all kinds)

2) Scholarships

Senior high school; and senior vocational schools (e.g. schools for health worker, mechanics/ carpentry/ electrical, business etc)

3) University

Including - university, institut, sekolah tinggi, politeknik, akademi. This includes all first degrees, up to S1 (i.e. education for teachers, doctors, nurses, lawyers, engineers, etc.)

4) Postgraduate education

This involves scholarships, covering education at Master’s and Doctoral level (S2 and S3), in Indonesia or overseas.

5) Adult and vocational training

This covers non-accredited courses, particularly for people who have some education.

• Adult College – language, arts, literacy, technical
• English - as a Foreign Language (EFL)
• Computer training
• Small business training
• NGO training (e.g. proposal-writing, report-writing, accounting)
• Public reading rooms
• Building facilities for the above purposes (e.g. Soe English Club)

6) School and University Resources

• Library books (and shelves)
• School class books (for class loan)
• Laboratory equipment
• Materials for vocational classes (e.g. wood, wool, flour etc.)

7) Kindergartens

• On-the-job kindergarten teacher training
• Erecting kindergarten buildings
• Costs of running kindergartens

8) Building educational facilities (classrooms etc)

9) School and university hostels e.g. Oecusse, so that students do not live in kos and get into trouble

• Building hostels
• Student costs, e.g. food, beds

10) Inservice courses, workshops, seminar

Funding for attendance. NOT a high priority.

2. Health

1) Medicines

2) Specialist treatment outside Timor

• This includes a) transport, b) specialist, c) nursing – in Surabaya, Malang, Flores, Kupang/Soe etc.There are only a handful of specialists in Timor.

3) Special requirements for the handicapped

• Needs of handicapped children in hostels (Soe, Kefa) – food, clothes, medicines, furniture, recreation equipment).
• Purchase of special aids e.g wheelchairs, false legs
• Rehabilitation requirements, e.g physiotherapy exercise tools/machines
• Specialist requirements for blind and deaf.

4) Special requirements for leprosy sufferers

• Special intensive treatment centres, e.g. Naob, and monthly clinics (Oecusse)
• Special shoes, e.g. Kupang
• Cottage industries for ex lepers, and cottage industry tools.

5) Counselling for torture and trauma victims

6) Health education in villages

e.g. to counter the incidence of malaria, tuberculosis, dysentery, worms, scabies

7) Health training

NB Initial health education for doctors and nurses is catered for under Education.

• Advanced medical training, e.g. surgery, anaesthetics
• Specialism such as physiotherapy training
• Upgrading of skills of lecturers in Health Academies
• Equipment for Health Academies

8) Equipment for health centres
e.g. scissors, thermometer, basin, scales, catheter, steriliser etc.

• Provision of more clinics (BP: balai pengobatan)

• Provision of more mother and child welfare clinics (BKIA: balai kesejateraan ibu dan anak)

• Provision of more maternity clinics (RB: Ruangan bersalin). All 3 clinics can be located in one facility.

10) Building health facilities
e.g. a hostel for patients requiring post-operative care (Soe)

 3. Income Generation
Alternative names – employment-creation, small enterprises, micro-enterprise, small business

1) Agriculture

• Purchase or hire of hand tractors

2) Livestock

• purchase of hens, pigs, goats
• intensification of chicken-raising

3) Fishing

• establishment of fish-processing business (cleaning, drying, freezing, marketing)
• purchase of outboard engine

4) Brick-making

5) Kiosk-establishment

6) Home industries

• sewing, clothes-making
• shoe-making

7) Traditional crafts

• Mainly weaving, and to a lesser extent plaiting.

8) Credit funds

4. Lost Youth

1) These youth have either never attended school, have reached only the end of primary school, or have dropped out at some point before the end of compulsory education. They have no academic or vocational skills. The majority of youth in Timor are like this (i.e. over 50%).

2) These youth often make/become pregnant, and make trouble (police). There are many lawless and violent young Timorese.

3)  These youth are rather like street children. Their parents often accept them reluctantly, society looks down on them, and worse, they have no self-confidence, breaking down in tears.

They need 2 things – skills and work.

1) Skills. Vocational courses, such as at Pustek Dili, and KKP and KPM in various places in West Timor. However many more are needed. The needs are:

• Buildings (for training courses), e.g. Kefa youth training centre
• Buildings for hostels, and beds
• Equipment (e.g. sewing machines etc.) (e.g. at KPM and KKP)
• Food and clothes

2) Work. Revolving credit funds (simpan/pinjam ?)

5. Orphans and Poor

The basic needs of orphans (in orphanages) and the poor (in kampongs) are the same, i.e. they need:

• school needs (books, uniform etc.)
• medical needs
• food
• clothes

They need integrated programs which cover all these needs (These exist at all orphanages, and also at projects at Hudilaran, Ermera, Ayotupas).

There is also a need for orphanage buildings – new, extensions, or rehabilitation.

6. Water and Sanitation

These are long-term projects, and must include:

• involvement of villagers in Water Maintenance Committees
• regular 6-monthly repair checks
• health education in all villages

e.g. Timor Aid cooperates with Delsos Kupang and Bia Hula in water provision. Other players in this field are AusAID, ICRC, UNICEF,etc.

Summary

Education

• education costs
• facilities

Health

• treatment
• education and training
• facilities

Income generation

• primary industry
• cottage industries
• credit funds

Youth training

Welfare for orphans and poor

Water and sanitation + health education