ADRA’s hygiene promotion team is creating awareness of the dangers of open defecation and the need for hygienic sanitation.Using Community-Led Total Sanitation (CLTS) methods, ADRA staff use participatory methods to teach community members of the importance of each household having a latrine.
In Timor-Leste nearly 70% of adult males smoke. Cigarettes are heavily advertised, easily bought by young people, and their dangers are not well known.
ADRA Timor-Leste is pleased to introduce a new project Kitchen Gardens for Uma Tolu. Beginning in October 2015, the KGUT project has a goal of increasing the food security of 40 households.
Antonina, a 67 year old mother and grandmother, who lives in East Timor — situated just a short 60 minute flight from Darwin — knows all too well how vital access to clean water can be.
Timor-Leste is marking World No Tobacco Day (May 31st) for the first time with a march up Comoro Road encouraging businesses and workplaces to become smoke-free.
ADRA Timor-Leste would like to welcome you to our brand-new website. We are one of ADRA’s newest offices having just opened in January 2011 here in East Timor (known locally as Timor-Leste).