by Amy Cubit | Sep 11, 2026 | General
Educating the Future is an Australian and Timorese not-for-profit organisation working to transform the lives of children in Timor-Leste through addressing an urgent and underfunded pre-school education gap. The seed for Educating The Future started after Australian...
by Amy Cubit | Jul 21, 2026 | General
In Timor-Leste, one of Australia’s closest neighbours, only one in five preschool aged children is enrolled in school. By Grade 1, around 70% of students are not meeting basic learning outcomes. For thousands of children, the foundations for lifelong learning...
by Amy Cubit | Jul 7, 2026 | General
How long have you been involved in the international development sector, and what first inspired you to enter the sector? I’ve been working in the sector for just under a decade, though the seeds of this were planted long before that. In 2018, I shut down my...
by Amy Cubit | Jul 1, 2026 | General
Across much of the world, a quiet but significant shift is underway in the education sector. This is particularly true for organisations working on education in an international development context. For many years, the focus was clear: getting children into school,...
by Amy Cubit | Jun 19, 2026 | General
In Australia, only about 10 cents in every donated dollar goes to international causes (JBWere, 2018), not because people don’t care, but because they don’t feel connected. There’s a quote from Daniel Wordsworth that I keep coming back to: “Proximity is...
