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Subject: Lottery determines which ET home to receive lighting from aid
The Inverell Times
Lottery determines which East Timor homes will receive lighting from
Inverell aid project
Tuesday, 16 March 2004
THE people of Emera Province, East Timor have conducted a lottery to
decide who will receive solar-powered lighting as part of an Inverell
Rotary Club international aid mission.
The lighting has already landed on the Dili docks with the Rotary team
due in the capital in a little more than a week.
It will be the club's second visit to the province under the guidance
of Catholic aid organisation Comunidade Edmund Rice.
The Inverell Rotary sponsored team to be led by Greg Moran will include
Bob Neich, Bob Lea and Ned Makim from Inverell, Wayne Reading formerly of
Warialda and now of Brisbane and Chris and Nathan Moran of Townsville.
The team will leave Inverell for Darwin on Thursday week before jumping
off to Dili and making the journey up into the mountainous Emera area.
Emera includes the villages of Samalette, Delesu and Railako, the sites
of the Rotary club's work on medical centres, schools and community
centres during the team's first visit in June 2002.
Team leader Greg Moran said a great deal had been learnt from the first
visit.
He said all the lighting equipment had been secured on the docks by CER
and placed under lock and key so the team could be productive from the
time it arrives.
The plan is to acclimatise in Dili for a brief period before heading
for camp in Samalette, a trip that takes more than two hours up very rough
mountain tracks.
Once in camp the team will be broken into work crews facing walks of up
to an hour to get to the homes to be fitted with solar lights, cables and
batteries.
The lights were sought by village representatives to assist children in
studying after school.
There is no mains power infrastructure in the area, a result of the
Indonesian pull-out of East Timor in 1999.
The team will install 150 lights; that's about one for every four homes
spread around the villages.
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