Christine Platt

Glimpses of Hope in East Timor Christine Platt

Why would a sixty-year-old Kiwi woman go on eighteen trips to a war-stricken nation?

This is a fascinating tale about her involvement in one of the twenty-first century's newest independent countries, East Timor, after decades of fighting and oppression.

Your emotions will be stretched as you read about the atrocities inflicted upon this tiny nation, but you will uplifted by individual stories of courage and self-sacrifice amid horrible loss.

No matter how bad a situation, there is always hope.