Timor Leste postcard

Attending the Progressio workshop on women, faith and peace-building, alongside other women from East Timor, Papua and Mindanao, was amazing for me. It was a new discovery that women from such different backgrounds voiced the same dream: ending discrimination against them, against us, women. They are all actively promoting equal rights for women, each in their own place and context. I felt very encouraged for my own work with HAFOTI (which promotes income-generating projects with women's groups around the country). One of my dreams is that I can contribute to overcoming the problems of male dominance and injustice, and all the consequences it carries for women in our society.

Abenta dan Costa, women's rights activist.

Timor Leste