| Subject: Lusa: Brazilian teachers arrive
March to give Portuguese classes
East Timor: Brazilian teachers arrive March to give Portuguese classes
Brasilia, Feb. 24 (Lusa) - Fifty Brazilian teachers begin teaching the
Portuguese-language and training local teachers in East Timor on a
12-month assignment beginning March, an official source said Thursday.
The teachers are being sent to Timor as part of Brazil's cooperation
program with Dili and will receive monthly salaries of euros 830 and
health insurance, said the Brazilian government source.
Meeting the teachers last week, Education Minister Tarso Genro said
their "great humanistic and political task" in assisting the new
nation was a "priority" of Brazilian foreign policy.
A minority of Timor's 800,000 inhabitants speak Portuguese, an official
language along with the more widely spoken Tetum.
CMC/CJB.
Lusa
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