Welcome
Blue Mountains East Timor Supporters are a group of volunteers who work in friendship with communities in East Timor, officially known as Timor-Leste, to help develop opportunities in their country.
We raise funds for projects to improve the education, health and wellbeing of Timorese people, with an emphasis on the empowerment of East Timorese women. Most of our projects are focused in the communities of the sub-district of Hatobuilico which shares a friendship agreement with the Blue Mountains, Australia. As volunteers we have few overheads and 99% of funds raised go directly to our projects in East Timor.
Through our efforts we have developed two scholarship programs, one concentrated on women from multiple districts accross Timor-Leste, the second is focused on young women and men in Hatobuilco. As a result of these programs more than 350 people have received scholarships to attend university. We have also funded more than 30 projects in women’s leadership, education, health, sport and economic and skills development, and many small organisations and enterprises run by women have been assisted. In addition we have built schools and women's centres.
BMETS aims to improve the lives of women and their communities in Timor-Leste in the present while contributing to the ongoing leadership and empowerment of East Timorese women into the future.