![]() “With support from my parents, I joined this effort to help affected communities, and it taught me a lot on how to be empathetic and help those families who lost their houses. The gooey mud sucks off footwear as she and her friends from the youth group União Nacional Escuteiros Timor-Leste (UNETL), ESHANA and Juventude Hadomi Natureza help the family clean up the home. Seventeen-year-old Ernizia Katty Abrantes dos Santos and her friends were busy with spades, shoveling away layers of mud in the home of Antoninho Doutel Fernandes in Becora suburb. In Dili alone, youth groups have cleaned 68 houses of dirt and debris and provided 246 households with some form of humanitarian assistance. Dili, the capital, was worst hit, with 12,378 temporary displaced persons finding shelter in 43 evacuation facilities after the floods.ĭespite being directly affected themselves, adolescents and youth have mobilized and been spurred to action to help their communities. The floods led to the death or disappearance of 41 people and affected 33,177 families throughout the country. ![]() This caused the worst flooding in 40 years, washing away or damaging roads and bridges, houses, schools and other buildings and causing landslides. Heavy rains and winds lashed much of Timor-Leste on the first weekend of April.
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