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07/12/2017
Watch a video from our Creating Leaders scholarship students at the Christmas party held for them at our Embassy in Dili, Timor-Leste. Creating Leaders is an Order of Malta scholarship program in Timor-Leste. Like many developing countries, Timor-Leste has high levels of poverty and low national human development. Education is an important vehicle to employment, […]
07/12/2017
The Order of Malta Medical Clinic in Dili is now officially open following a ceremony on 7th November, which was attended by Members of the Order from the Asia-Pacifc region, Timorese government officials and generous donors and supporters. The project was conceived 2 prior when it became the major project of the Order of Malta […]
13/10/2017
Creating Leaders is an Order of Malta scholarship program in Timor-Leste. Like many developing countries, Timor-Leste has high levels of poverty and low national human development. Education is an important vehicle to employment, independence, social and political empowerment and consequently, national development. However, a cycle of poverty often creates barriers to the children’s participation in […]
15/09/2017
The Order of Malta Clinic in Dili, will provide free primary medical services to those who are unable to afford treatment and will focus on antenatal and neonatal health, and the health of children up to age 5. While Timor-Leste has made large strides in the quality of its healthcare since independence, it still has […]
14/09/2017
Thanks to a generous donor, another child has a sponsor in the Creating Leaders Scholarship Program. Caetano is one of our youngest students and in August he celebrated his 11th birthday. He lives in Bebonuk with his three siblings and mother who works as a housekeeper and father who works as a gardener. His favourite […]
31/08/2017
Our biggest project to date, the Order of Malta Medical Clinic in Dili, is almost complete. In Timor-Leste diseases exist and remain untreated, that in ‘first-world’ countries are easily cured. Individuals, especially children, are more susceptible to illness due to poor nutrition. Both mothers and children during childbirth have an alarming mortality rate. The opportunity […]
12/07/2017
The Order’s Australian President Dr Ian Marshall invited Young Order of Malta Queensland (YOMV Qld) members Christopher Schaffer, Joseph and Alice Grogan to develop an appeal seeking donations of simple household medicines like Paracetamol, Ibuprofen, vitamins and cough medicine to support a small medical clinic in Timor-Leste. “Sister (Irma) Cristina Macrino from the Congregation of […]
22/06/2017
The Embassy of the Order of Malta in Timor Leste is about to open a medical clinic in Dili. In a country where 1 in 6 children do not reach their 1st birthday due to treatable illnesses and malnutrition, the clinic will provide an opportunity to fulfil the Orders mission to help our Lords the […]
18/01/2017
As reported in our July 2016 newsletter, the Embassy of the Order of Malta in Timor Leste is about to open a medical clinic in Dili. In a country where 1 in 6 children do not reach their 1st birthday due to treatable illnesses and malnutrition, the clinic will provide an opportunity to fulfil the […]
04/04/2016
Last month, the Order’s Ambassador to Timor-Leste delivered 15 boxes of medicines to a medical clinic in Maliana, Timor-Leste. The cost of the medicines was funded by a group of members of the Order of Malta in Australia as part of an ongoing project to assist medical clinics that provide primary medical care for significant […]
The Australian Association, formed in 1974, currently has in excess of 300 members and aspirant members across every State and Territory of Australia. We also have ongoing and strong links with the Order’s National Associations throughout the Asia Pacific Region including in Singapore and the Philippines and with members of the Order in New Zealand, Hong Kong SAR, Thailand and Korea. The Order of Malta is committed to serving Our Lords the Poor and Sick worldwide and has done so for over 900 years. This website shares with you the history, mission and current activities of the Order of Malta in Australia, and provides links to the work of the Order world-wide.
