Timor Leste: Chook fighting is the national sport of Timor Leste. As questionable as the ‘sport’ is it religiously takes place around 5:00 PM every day in every town of the tiny nation.
Timor Leste: Orphanages run by the Catholic Church are many in Timor Leste due to extreme poverty. The Orphanages provide shelter, food, clothing an education for many thousands of children.
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Timor Leste: A girl sits alone in a street in Culuhun, just outside the country’s capital of Dili. Poverty and malnutrition plagues the country as does corruption.Timor Leste: Kids cool off in a bay just outside the country’s capital of Dili.Timor Leste: A derelict house a living monument of the horrors of the 25 year Indonesian rule during which more than 300,000 Timorese people died.Timor Leste: A boy runs with a ‘toy’ gun towards a UN vehicle in Culuhun in 2014. This image won the International Loupe Award for Photojournalism in 2014.
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Timor Leste: Poverty remains a major issue in Timor Leste for families with children suffering major malnutrition issues.Timor Leste: Young people catch a ride on a ‘microlet’ back to their villages from the country’s capital of Dili.Timor Leste: Poverty remains a major issue in Timor Leste for families with children suffering major malnutrition issues. Here children as young as 4yo search a rubbish dump.
