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STATS
50% of children from the ages of zero to five years old die each year because of malnutrition, UNICEF reports that 20,000 children need protective environments and lack proper education.
NEED
Outside the capital city of Dili life is as it has been for many years, unchanged, unimproved and struggling to survive.
SOLUTION
With land already allocated we have drawn up blueprints as it is our desire to build a Family Center in the mountain, a Good Life Home and Center for children that focuses on and addresses the most urgent needs.
This site will furnish nutritious meals and offer educational opportunities for both adults and children. Already in place is an English class for the village and district officials enabling them to learn without having to travel the long distance to the capital city of Dili, a regular class is provided and in place for them to learn.
The structure will also provide care for children in need and be open to the community providing micro business training, along with support allowing them to multiply the effectiveness of this facility to other remote locations.
With classrooms, hygiene facilities and the ability to provide meals and care for all those in need, you can be a part of reaching out by your involvement in giving to build and maintain the center.
Birthing Center
To reach the small village of Sideria you must turn off the road, drive down a dirt path, cross a riverbed and drive up an embankment to finally arrive in this remote, rural village at the base of the mountains.
It is here among the grass huts, on dirt floors that many infants were born and coming into the world. East Timor has one of the highest infant mortality rates; therefore it is here that the New Birthing Center is located. Just a few years ago this village was isolated from any form of medical care, but now its three hundred residents have medical attention as well as the new Birthing Center to meet the needs of the growing community.
With the help of caring people form California USA this facility will be offering mothers a beautiful place to give birth as they usher their new born babies into the world, educating them how to care best for this newest addition to their family.
The Birthing Center is situated across from the clinic which was built a few years ago with help from Serving Our World. Here the nurse educates parents to care for their new born children, providing the needed support and materials to insure that each one is given the medical treatment they deserve.
Village Outreach
In the tall mountains of Timor Leste, Serving Our World has been working in this remote village to help children and families by providing meals and education. After a long and sometimes difficult road trip, one you can only attempt during the dry season, you ascend to the beautiful village of Liquidoe. We have nick named it, “The village in the Clouds” as every time we have gone up we always literally drive through the clouds.
As you enter this village and look out over the crest of the mountain terrain what really pleases us is not the view of the landscape, but the hundred children that come running to say hello and to give you a warm welcome. Yes, those big smiles make it all worth the ride. And every minute while you are there they are by your side and so happy that you have returned.
Our project during this phase is focused on the children, providing nutritious meals and a staff for teaching each week. On a recent visit we had a meeting with the District Officials and village leaders and Chiefs. It is in this setting we can learn how to adjust the weekly project to be the most beneficial to the village. As a group of fifteen of us sat and shared I asked them to report on what they felt about the Serving Our World project.
Starting with the District official who replied, “We are so grateful for the results of the Serving Our World project, it is really not only taking care of the children but whole families are being helped.” It was with this that we began to go around the room and hear from each one, much to our delight all were saying the same thing and very pleased with what our staff of nationals have been doing each week.
I also spent time going to several homes of the children who attend on a regular basis, I wanted to hear for myself how and what we are doing for the families connected to our outreach. One of the families, as I approached, was working on their peanut harvest they had laid out in front of them. 
I was curious to what other crops did they grow in the area. The father told me that besides the peanuts they grow a root they eat, and harvest a bean similar to a lima bean that grows in the forest and small bananas.
I asked him the same question regarding the Serving Our World project and how has it helped his family of six? Here is what he told me, “If it would have not been for the project I don’t know how we could have fed our children, as our harvest is very small.” That is all I needed to hear to understand what we could do to help them and the whole village in even a greater way.
Clinics
Serving Our World has teamed up with National Organizations to build a needed clinic in East Timor. This clinic is the VERY FIRST in this rural village of hatched huts and dirt floors, to have block walls and cement floors and the only community shower and toilet! 
They informed us that even the Brazilian Ambassador and a representative from the Ministry of Health of East Timor visited the clinic.
As you can see, your donations are certainly not in vain, the monies you give go directly to making a difference in the lives of people who without your help, could continue to suffer preventable diseases, illness and death.
When you are a Serving Our World family member you are one to one working with those in need. Your donation goes to the need. It is planted in good ground producing lasting fruit to your account.
