Plan has been working in Timor-Leste since 2001, helping poor children to access their rights to education, health, livelihoods and protection.

We currently implement projects in Lautem and Aileu districts, and have been working in camps for internally displaced people in the capital, Dili, since the political crisis of 2006.

As the emergency situation has stabilised and the camps are gradually being phased out, we are now helping to reintegrate displaced people into their communities.

Case study

Making Timor-Leste a safer place for children

40% of children in Timor-Leste suffer from violence, and most crimes against children are neither addressed nor reported. But Plan is helping the country develop a national child protection system to change this.