Outreach teams
Providing quality and comprehensive family planning services across 12 of Timor-Leste’s municipalities
Travelling to remote locations across 12 municipalities
With 70% of the population living in rural areas, we work in partnership with the Ministry of Health to provide essential services to high-need and low-access communities.
Support from the Australian Embassy in Timor-Leste allows us to deliver a broad range of outreach services at Ministry of Health facilities in some of the most remote communities, free of charge to clients.
Our outreach teams
The teams often work in difficult and hard to reach locations in 12 municipalities in Timor-Leste: Dili, Bobanaro, Baucau, Viqueque, Lautem, Ermera, Ainaro, Oé-Cusse, Aileu, Liquica, Manufahi and Manatuto.
Our outreach teams are comprised of both experienced clinical and health promotion staff. Team members consist of individuals from the local communities in which we work, ensuring we always have people on hand who speak local languages and have good working relationships with government partners.
We offer our outreach services to those with the greatest cost and location barriers to accessing services, ensuring we travel to the hardest to reach and most underserved parts of the country.
“Accessing family planning services through the Marie Stopes Outreach teams has helped me and my whole family. They provide important family planning services not available elsewhere. I don’t know what we would have done without help.”
What you can always expect
The Marie Stopes Timor-Leste outreach teams are driven to provide comprehensive, non-judgmental family planning information and services.
We are dedicated to providing the same quality of service as we offer at our Family Health Clinic. This means following national Ministry of Health guidelines and meeting international best practice standards. Everything we do is to ensure our clients receive the best possible health care from our caring, competent and experienced health care professionals.
Other ways to access our services
We also offer access to quality, comprehensive family planning services through our 12 outreach teams, mobile tent services and national youth hotline – Liña Foin-Sa’e.
Family Health Clinic
We currently operate a Family Health Clinic in Bidau Lecidere, Dili. Our clinic team is comprised of highly competent and experienced nurses, midwives and doctors.
Mobile tents
We use mobile tents to provide services in remote and hard to reach locations of the country. Mobile tents focus on increasing access to services across high-need and low-access communities.
Liña Foin-Sa’e
Liña Foin-Sa’e is our national youth hotline providing comprehensive information on healthy relationships and reproductive health to young people in Timor-Leste.
Learn more about our services
Find out more about the services we offer and they’re availability countrywide.