03229. Timor-Leste. Program commenced: 1995 Total number of placements: 454 (as of 20 July, 2011) Number of current placements: 12 (as of 20 July, 2011) AVI Programs: Volunteer Program, Atauro Island Community Capacity Building Project, Community Water Supply and Sanitation Program, ETDA Employment Services Project, Staffing Assistance Program for East Timor, Timor Tennis Clinic 2007, Timor-Leste Tennis Clinic 2005 Timor Leste is located in the eastern part of Timor, an island in the Indonesian archipelago that lies between the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean.
Timor-Leste has a long history of colonisation, beginning with the Portugese in from the mid 1700s and more recently with their struggle for independence from Indonesia. Timor-Leste is one of the world's poorest nations and still has a lot to achieve in areas such as adult literacy and life expectancy. Contact our Timor-Leste program office. Socio-economic issuesHealth issuesEnvironmental issues Socio-economic issues Health issues Environmental issues. Health in East Timor. Subject: ApT: Health in East Timor Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 08:33:37 -0400 From: Bruno Kahn <kahn@math.jussieu.fr> [This is the translation of an article appearing in the April issue of the Agir pour Timor bulletin. This article was written before the latest events.] In its rhetoric aiming to justify the annexation of East Timor, the Indonesian government has constantly claimed to contribute to the development of the territory and has argued that it builds hospitals, schools, roads and administrative buildings.
What assessment can be made of public health in East Timor today? Such an assessment is difficult given the incompleteness of available data. We used statistics published every year by the Indonesian Health Ministry, but the figures given are sometimes totally incoherent and it seems, in view of other information, that their presentation plays down the seriousness of the situation.
Official statistics claim 1,355 nurses and 155 doctors for a population of about 800,000 inhabitants. Poverty in Timor-Lorosa'e (East Timor) [Poverty] [Health] [Education] All references are from the report Timor-Leste: Poverty in a New Nation: An Analysis for Action, Asian Development Bank et al. Dili, May 2003.
PDF copy of the report (2.2 Mbyte) Poverty East Timor is among the poorest countries in East Asia. (xiii)Population is 830,000. Health The burden of disease is largely due to communicable diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, respiratory tract infections and childhood infections. Education 95% of schools were destroyed in 1999. Health and nutrition | Oxfam NZ. Cova Lima District sits on the south-east coast of East Timor. It has a population of about 56,000 people and is considered to be one of the poorest parts of a poor country.
The only access to Cova Lima is along a rough, narrow road that winds its way from Dili, the country's capital, through coastal and mountainous terrain. Oxfam New Zealand has been working in Cova Lima for the past two years. However, New Zealand’s links with Cova Lima go back to 1999 when New Zealand peace-keeping soldiers were stationed there. Skills for self-government One of the major difficulties facing the people of East Timor is a lack of skills in key areas, from government planning to engineering. Oxfam is helping to address this skills shortage, training local people and local groups in management and planning skills while working to build links between the community and all levels of national government. Communicating needs ‘Before our village water supply was built it took me up to three hours to get water. Cookies must be enabled.
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Poverty « ADRA Timor-Leste. Poverty Profile Poverty is one of the main problems in underdeveloped countries. Every year, a large number of people from these countries are found to die mainly due to poverty, and the country of East Timor is no exception to that. Many people belonging to this part of the world are found to be victimized because of poverty (IMF, 2005, pp. 31). An estimated 41.5 percent of the population is living under the national poverty line in 2005 (UNDP, 2006, 2).
This figure is not only extremely high in absolute terms but represents an increase in poverty of more than 2 percentage points in just three years. This trend no doubt reflects the decline in real nonpetroleum GDP that was occurring in those years and underlines the importance of growth in the nonpetroleum economy to achieve poverty reduction. East Timor Poverty is primarily caused due to the non-availability of food material in this part of the world.
Percentage of the Population Below the National Poverty Line (Established 2004)