Marcal Amaral Lopes has been a Salesian brother for 18 years. He is Headmaster of Don Bosco Technical High School at Fatumaca, 150 km from the capital, Dili. He recently visited Australia and provided this overview of the current situation in his homeland.It is just over a year since 80 per cent of the East Timorese voted in favour of independence in the UN supervised ballot. So much has happened in the past twelve months. In the aftermath of the ballot a great deal of East Timor’s infrastruct…
