Friends of Venilale e-Newsletter November 2021

Still no trips to Venilale this year but lots going on. A special welcome was extended to Venilale’s new Administrator, Senyor Miguel Guterres Mendes. Venilale also saw the hand over of the position of Chief of Venilale Medical Centre to Amandio Ximenes Guterres. The Ridgeline Walk involving only Timbertop students was a great success and enabled our scholarship programme to continue. We continued to meet Seasonal Workers and Timorese students from Melbourne. Joni supplied lots of photos which kept us up to date on improvements to roads and the destruction caused by intense wet weather. Nothing could stop the vigorous FoV committee so the celebration of our 15th anniversary was finally celebrated in style despite being a year late. The three friendship groups in the Indi electorate were featured in the North East Living magazine. We also offer our warm congratulations to Boss and Isabel on their engagement and thank Boss for sharing with us cultural dowry practices.…