ATLAS Now
Registered Charity
The Australia Timor-Leste Advancement Society is a registered charity that was created to provide development assistance to communities in Timor-Leste that are disadvantaged or in poverty.
View our ATLAS profile at the national regulator of charities, the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission.
Purpose
ATLAS’s purposes specifically include:
- Establishing, monitoring and evaluating development projects within East Timor that are focused on educating local communities.
- Providing work skills and other assistance to enable recipients to set up a small self-sustaining business of their own.
- Assisting in the building and maintenance of educational facilities.
- Targeting assistance to specific disadvantaged groups to assist in transition into education or paid employment with the objective of those recipients becoming self-sustaining.
- Training in the development of skills including personal care, nutrition, drug and alcohol education, pregnancy, and similar skills.
- Vocational training support in areas such as hospitality, tourism, carpentry, health, mechanics, and other trade skills.
- Entering partnerships with local organisations that share the charity’s principal purpose of providing development assistance to communities in developing countries that are disadvantaged or in poverty.
Patrons
The ATLAS Patrons are:
- Her Excellency Ms Inês Maria De Almeida, Ambassador to Australia
- Sr. Josephine Mitchell RSJ.
Board & Committee
The ATLAS Governing Board is chaired by:
- Gerald Kenneally, Paddy’s son.
The ATLAS Governing Board members include:
- Father Graham McIntyre
- Greg Mills B Sc., M, Mgt
- Paul McGrath
Our Management Committee include:
- Volunteers who bring their expertise in fundraising, charitable projects, knowledge of the Timorese people, hard work and plenty of enthusiasm: Josephine Mitchell, Noreen Nicoara, Stephen Dillon, Rayella Haines, Susan Connelly, Janet Borg, Chris Scarf.