About HIAM-Health
HIAM-Health provides vital services to reduce high infant and maternal mortality rates and to reduce unacceptable health and social conditions in poverty stricken Timor-Leste (East Timor), the poorest nation in South-East Asia. Find out more.
We're making a big difference
Read about our services to the people of Timor-Leste, our history, and some of our success stories and disappointments. Read the latest update from Jill Hillary, an Australian volunteer working for HIAM-Health in Timor-Leste.
The Malnutrition Rehabilitation Centre project
In order to improve the care and rehabilitation of children suffering from malnutrition HIAM-Health is planning to establish a Malnutrition Rehabilitation Centre. Find out more.
How you can help
Due to recent events in Timor-Leste, we need your help more than ever. You can help by making a donation, or by working as a volunteer in Timor-Leste or a fundraiser elsewhere. You can also tell a friend about our important work.
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Please help us! Due to the current humanitarian crisis in East Timor, we desperately need your help. |
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How you can help... |
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Help build HIAM Health's Malnutrition
Rehabilitation Centre
Why a rehab centre?
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Education programs... |
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| Parents at a recent education program run by HIAM Health in Metinaro |
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Cooking Demonstration... |
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| Health Education workshops began in September 2004, open to the general public. There are now five workshops held per week. |
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Visiting inpatients... |
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| This little boy has survived for the second time sever malnutrition even though he is now on the road to recovery, because he is under 3 years of age the damage to his development, mental and physical is irreversible |
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Read our stories... |
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| HIAM-Health first met Lola as an inpatient in Dili Hospital [ read more... ] |