Profiles of current staff
Roberto Gabriel Leto Mau, Program Manager
Roberto works for Timor Aid for six years now, starting in April 2004 as a project officer for a civic education program. In this program, he developed civic education references for pre-secondary and secondary school across Timor Leste. An important success he made was working with the Ministry of Education to organize two national congresses on the development of civic education reference materials for the schools.
In 2005 when the project concluded, Roberto worked on a world citizen project. During the emergency period between 2006 and 2007, Roberto led Timor Aid’s work on the NGO Emergency Support Program across Timor Leste.
Today, Roberto is a project manager overseeing Timor Aid’s sustainable village project in the Manufahi district.
Roberto shares us his dream to be a politician in the future, perhaps the Minister of Agriculture – good luck to you Roberto!
Alvaro da Silva, Project Coordinator, Civic Education
Alvaro has been working on civic education programs at Timor Aid since 2004. His first work trip with Timor Aid didn’t get off to the best start when the ferry for Oecusse turned back to Dili after only five minutes. But since then, Alvaro has travelled to many parts of Timor with Timor Aid, working on projects to help promote awareness and involvement in civic society including facilitating a youth parliament, a communications campaign on suco councils, developing civic education curriculum materials and training and study tours for youth.
Alvaro enjoys getting to manage projects and be involved in the decision making at Timor Aid. He is currently also studying law at UNPAS and hopes his study will help him contribute to Timorese society further in the future. Prior to working at Timor Aid, Alvaro worked at the Commission for Truth and Reconciliation.
Suzana Henriques Rodrigues, Tetun Trainer & Tetun Language Program Officer
Suzana leads on Timor Aid’s work to promote the Tetun language including teaching language classes, providing translation services and managing Timor Aid’s book shop. Her favorite book in Timor Aid’s collection is Luirai Oan Ki’ik, the French classic The Little Prince translated into Tetun. Suzana also helps coordinate Istoria Timor, a national writing competition to encourage more reading, writing and books in Tetun.
Suzana speaks Tetun, Bahasa Indonesian, Portuguese and English and is currently completing a Bachelor of Education at the Universidade Nasional Timor Loresa’e. She is interested in further teaching work and becoming involved in curriculum development.
Guilhermino Felix (Guntur) District Officer, Covalima
Guntur is Timor Aid’s district coordinator for Covalima, based in his hometown of Suai Commencing work with Timor Aid in 2006, Guntur has worked on a number of Covalima projects including trauma healing, youth civic education and the preservation of Timor Leste’s textile art.
This year, Guntur is working on a water and sanitation project in two sucos in Covalima and on the Working with Weavers project including study tours for weavers and the development of a local weaving centre and tais shop.
Guntur likes working with the community across the district of Covalima, and enjoys the opportunity to work on a variety of projects. Guntur is also part of a local steering committee that looks at issues surrounding natural disasters in Covalima.