Where to Begin
There is more than one way to help. You do not need to work directly with clients to make a serious contribution. Start with what you can do well.
Volunteer where care, skill, and protection meet to support women and children across Timor-Leste.

There is more than one way to help. You do not need to work directly with clients to make a serious contribution. Start with what you can do well.
Volunteering is not a shortcut into someone else's story. Any contribution must strengthen safety, dignity, and local leadership. Never create new pressure or exposure.
Casa Vida works with women and children affected by violence. Every contribution must strengthen safety, dignity and local leadership. It must never create new pressure or exposure.
Survivor privacy and informed consent come first.
Volunteer roles are agreed around a real organisational need.
Direct contact with clients is never assumed or automatic.
Casa Vida will explain the appropriate scope, supervision and next step.
Tell us what you hope to contribute. We will reply when there is a safe and useful fit, with a clear next step.
casavidat@gmail.com
Whether you offer time, skills, introductions or financial support, the same standard applies: it must help Casa Vida protect dignity and build safer futures.