Who are Friends of Timor? Well...just about anybody and everybody who has a passion and heart to walk alongside the world's youngest nation as they build their nation can be a part of FOT. We are just that - a bunch of crazy friends committed to help our neighbour in our small little ways.

Doing pro bono work for a country is a little unusual, given that most agencies do it for foundations or charities.

In September 2005, three of us from Ogilvy went on an exploratory trip to East Timor to see what we can do to help.

We want to position East Timor as a destination not for the passive tourist, but the intrepid traveller who wants to be a part of the country.

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For the whole of March 2007, the Singapore Asian Civilisations Museum [ACM] @ Empress Place features TIMOR LESTE: A Tapestry of Hope by NTU Youth for Global Mission Team who undertook a Humanitarian and Community Building Mission to Timor Leste from 21 Sep – 1 Oct 2006.

Let them ease you, and your friends, into the life in Timor Leste through videos and photographs. Join them as they participated in building communities in Timor Leste and learned how people survive against all odds.

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The last time the world read about Timor-Leste, it was in 1999. The world then watched the birth of a new nation literally from amidst the ashes, conflict and destruction.

Timor-Leste today faces a silent emergency. The statistical evidence is compelling. Timor-Leste has the highest number of babies and mothers dying in the entire East Asia Pacific region; nearly half of the children under five are suffering from moderate or severe malnutrition;

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