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Mape is a remote village within the Lolotoe sub district of
East Timor. A steep, rocky track connects Mape with Lolotoe
and the main road. Vehicle access is very difficult and on
foot it takes about an hour to reach Mape. The village is i
n a beautiful valley and consists of Indonesian type houses
built with concrete blocks intermingled with traditional grass
thatched dwellings. Most people in Mape are subsistence farmers
and do not have a cash income.
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first became involved in Mape in 2002 when it supported Agostinho,
a teacher who lives and works in Mape, to travel to Darwin to gain
experience working in schools and developing teaching skills.
Since then several individuals and organisations notably the
Catholic Education Office in Ballarat in Victoria, Rotary Club of
Nobel Park as well as numerous Rotary clubs from Victoria have
helped refurbish the existing Mape school and construct a new
building with two class rooms.
The realization of the project involved the people of Mape who
were employed for the laying of the foundation. The structural
steel and roofing was manufactured in Baucau at the East Timor
Roofing Training Cooperative. Norm Bruce who manages the facility
was able to solve all the technical and logistics problems.
Daryl Mills the Rotary Liaison Officer in Dili did a lot of the
coordinating. He also supplied the photos of the opening ceremony.
The photos show the old class rooms, the foundations to the new
building and the opening ceremony which took place on 17 July 2005.
There are also three pictures of the factory in Baucau which produced
the steel components for the school.
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