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Foreshore of Dili Harbour. A freight barge lies at anchor waiting to be unloaded while traditional fishing canoes lay surrounded by the receding tide.

Mother and daughter waiting for treatment outside the Bairu Pitc clinic run by American doctor, Dan Murphy. The clinic is part of the operations of Sister Lourdes.

Refugees returning home from enforced exile in West Timor are housed briefly at a 'reception centre', an old cattle shed near Dili Airport.

The water for Sister Lourdes' guesthouse in Dili is drawn by electric pump from the ground water. Most houses have hand pumps.

Cooking facilities at the Prunus guesthouse. Pots and pans are in short supply as is firewood.

Not all bad news. These children demonstrate the hope of a bright new future for independent East Timor

Burned out houses and hotel in Dili, the result of a 'scorched earth policy' implemented by Indonesia and its militia allies last October.

View from Dare looking down on Dili. The hillside provides relief from the sweltering heat of Dili.

Tony Richings of Caritas Australia breaks the seal on the community First truck in Dili.

Children living in the Dare orphanage run by sister Lourdes pose with Australian aid workers from Oxfam and Caritas

Loes in the north west of East Timor. A house loaned to Sister Lourdes by the local priest provides a shelter for members of her order.

The swamp flats of the Loes River provide fertile ground for planting of rice. The tractor is a donation from the International Red Cross

A young helper in the kitchen as dinner is being prepared over a crude firewood stove.

A cloth sent to us in Bairnsdale from Community First in East Timor.