Relief Efforts in Timor-Leste
CARE in Timor-Leste focuses on long-term sustainable development projects in agriculture and disaster risk reduction, education, community health and nutrition, sanitation, capacity building, urban community outreach and peace-building, rural infrastructure and employment, and women’s participation and gender equality.
CARE has been operating in Timor-Leste since 1994, originally as part of CARE Indonesia and as an autonomous country office once Timor-Leste gained independence in 2002. In that time, CARE has engaged in two major emergency responses following the violent outbreaks that occurred in 1999 and 2006.