IOM backs Timor-Leste reforestation initiative.

24 Feb 2010

IOM backs Timor-Leste reforestation initiative.

Dili, 23 February 2010 - IOM deployed ten trucks to support a national reforestation campaign launched as part of the government's Dili City of Peace programme.

The trucks were used to transport over 20,000 saplings and some 4,000 school children from Camea to Dili, where ten hillsides near the capital are suffering from extensive deforestation. Up to 80,000 trees will be replanted in the areas.

Timor-Leste President Jose Ramos-Horta launched the campaign at a national event attended by over 10,000 people, including representatives of the government, international organizations, NGOs, local communities and school children – each of whom planted a sapling in one of the ten areas.

The campaign aims to educate the public and raise awareness of the need to protect the environment of Timor-Leste, as well as providing opportunities to strengthen the unity of communities in Dili.

Several Dili neighbourhoods suffer from flash floods during the rainy season, when the run-off from surrounding hills flood homes and damage crops. There have also been a number of land slides from hillsides adjoining roads. Planting trees in these areas will decrease the run-off and stabilise the soil.

The national reforestation campaign is just one initiative from the President's Dili City of Peace campaign. Its objective is to foster peaceful conditions to support national stability in Timor-Leste, following the civil unrest and displacement of 2006.

Other initiatives have included the successful cycle Tour de Timor in October 2009, for which IOM also provided logistical support, and the Dili Marathon, which will take place in June this year.

For more information, please contact Katharine Bryant at IOM Dili. Email: kbryant@iom.int, or Tel. +670 723 0254.

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OIM/IOM Apoia Timór-Leste ninia Inisiativa Kuda Ai-horis

OIM Dili hatún kamiaun sanulu horiseik atu apoia kampaña nasionál kuda ai-horis ne'ebé lansa ona nu'udar parte ida hosi Prezidente ninia programa Dili Sidade Paz.

Kamiaun sira-ne'e uza atu tula ai-oan 20,000 no labarik estudante 4,000 hosi Kamea mai Dili, ne'ebé foho-loloon sanulu besik kapitál sofre makaas daudaun ho deflorestasaun. Ai-horis 80,000 sei kuda-hikas iha área sira-ne'e.
Prezidente Timór-Leste, José Ramos-Horta lansa kampaña ne'e iha seremónia nasionál ida be atende hosi ema 10,000 resin, inklui saseluk sira hosi governu, organizasaun internasionál, ONG, komunidade lokál no labarik eskola-oan sira – ema idaidak kuda ai-oan ida iha área sanulu ne'e.
Kampaña ne'e buka atu hanorin públiku no hasa'e konxiénsia kona-ba nesesidade atu proteje Timór-Leste nia meiu-ambiente, nomós fó oportunidade ba komunidade sira Dili laran atu hametin unidade.
Fatin balu iha Dili sofre bee-sa'e durante tempu udan, bainhira bee boot hosi foho lolon sira suli tama ba uma sira no halo-aat to'os sira. Rai-halai mós akontese ba lurón sira ne'ebé iha foho-lolon. Kuda ai-horis iha área sira ne'e sei hamenus bee boot no hametin rai.
Kampaña nasionál kuda ai-horis nu'udar de'it inisiativa ida hosi Prezidente ninia kampaña Dili Sidade Paz. Ninia objetivu maka atu promove moris hakmatek atu apoia estabilidade nasionál iha Timór-Leste, hafoin tiha rungu-ranga no deslokasaun ne'ebé mosu iha 2006.
Inisiativa siraseluk maka inklui tiha ona kurida bisikleta Tour de Timor be suksesu tebes iha fulan Outubru 2009, ne'ebé OIM mós fó tiha ona ninia apoiu lojístika, no Maratona Dili, ne'ebé sei halo iha fulan Juñu tinan ida-ne'e.
Ba informasaun liután, halo favór kontakta de'it ho Katharine Bryant iha IOM Dili. Email: kbryant@iom.int, eh Tel. +670 723.

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