by Amy Cubit | Sep 21, 2026 | General
The island of Timor is more than an island divided by Timor Leste and Indonesian Timor in the west. As Fox (2003) highlights, the complex indigenous traditions portray the island both as a half-submerged crocodile, wary and waiting and also as Mother Earth “accepting,...
by Amy Cubit | Sep 15, 2026 | General
How long have you been involved in the international development sector, and what first inspired you to enter the sector? I first entered the development sector when I was studying Psychology in Gadjah Mada University-Indonesia back in 1997. I was a volunteer working...
by Amy Cubit | Sep 14, 2026 | General
Education ministries in small, aid-dependent nations are rarely short of partners. Bilateral agencies, multilateral institutions, international and local NGOs, and an increasing number of philanthropic funders are typically all active in the same system, often...
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...
