TIMOR L’ESTE: Looming food shortage in East Timor*

Fr Marcos de Oliveira, an East Timorese priest, is appealing for assistance to provide urgently needed food for children attending the 45 schools in his parish.”There are a large number of students in our schools who don’t have breakfast or lunch,” Fr Marcos said. “Initially, I would like to be able to give them one meal a day at school.”It is my dream to provide each school with gardening implements and seed to enable the children to grow their own vegetables and fruit trees,” he added.Accordin…

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