Thanks for all the assistance to Comunidade Edmund Rice (CER) in East Timor to:

Bill, Richard and Mike who were here for the year and
Renee, Katrina, Krystal, Carla, Tom and Sally who were here for 3 months or so.

 And then there were the 50 to 60 visitors who stayed with us for weeks or days.

 So it was a good year which included the following: 

• Health continues with the 5 Timorese staff 
• Pre-school with 11 teachers (probably in six sites with 13 teachers next year)
• CER’s 10 teachers continue to set a high standard at Deleco and Railako Kraic 
• Card making expanded to 51 ladies and nearly 15000 cards
• Just Coffee was launched, and $US8000 distributed across 497 families
• Taught English to over 450 people from Neldie aged 7 to Gil aged 49
• Two Timorese teachers attended Nudgee International college 
• Dan’s Crew of 16 Terrace Timor Network people renewed Dan’s Motel and built the Ed Shed for pre-school and health
• 16 students from Gregory Terrace visited and put up soccer and volley ball posts
• Other Qld ER schools have visited with the hope of continuing partnerships
• 47 new houses got lights and 100’s had repairs.  And the annual $10 maintenance fee commenced.
• We had new 'chefes' elected, and with them great hopes for better relationships with all the villages.
• We spent $29000 on running six vehicles, and $28500 in housing and feeding six volunteers
• In Australia, Katrina has prepared for publication an expanded 4 part English text book for TL schools.
• We lived in a country with growing hopes of peace and prosperity
• And as a community we ate and shared together, had a community meeting each Friday night, and a shared prayer each Sunday
• And one and all of us were thanked thousands of times by smiling faces, bananas, eggs etc.