Hume council’s Timor Leste friendship is set to expand, with inclusion of the Melbourne CERES centre’s global arm into projects that Hume co-ordinates with partner Moreland council.
In 2000, the two councils formed the friendship with the Timor Leste district of Aileu in a mountainous area south of the capital, Dili.
CERES is a non-profit organisation located on four hectares of rehabilitated landfill in East Brunswick.
CERES Global works with project partners – women’s and tribal groups and remote marginal communities – in the fields of environmental education, organic agriculture, solar energy, revegetation, and water management.
CERES Global has established projects in India, Indonesia and Arnhem Land, as well as Timor Leste.
As one of its projects, Friends of Aileu supports a cultural exchange program between three schools in Aileu and three in Australia, including Meadows
Primary School in Hume and
Brunswick North West Primary School in Moreland.
