A U.N. High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) field worker oversees the clearing of land by Bangladeshi peacekeeping soldiers outside of Dili, East Timor Tuesday. The land will be used to expand UNHCR's refugee transit center to accomodate 5,700 people. The expansion is part of UNHCR's contingency plan to prepare for the influx of thousands of East Timorese refugees from Indonesian controlled West Timor following recent pro-Indonesian militia violence amidst the refugee camps in WestTimor. (AP Photo/Joel Rubin)Taken from Timor Today

PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS: ON ALL FRONTS

Members of the New Zealand Contingent are reaching out in rebuilding efforts with the locals at Rumbia  School  in Dili, East Timor, not so far from the PKF Hqs. This was  made possible from the $800 proceeds of the New Zealand Comedy Show, in cooperation with the USGET.  Same humanitarian undertakings are also being spread all over East Timor by the various  NCE's. Photos by Capt. Peterson

The magic of people working together is as old as  the nations civilization and  even those little hands must now rekindle in us their lingering aspirations for a brighter tomorrow in this part of the world..

Truly, the United Nations Peacekeeping Force  bind themselves with outpouring humanitarian efforts to a nation reeling from the nightmare of violence and conflagration and ante-modern destruction with unperturbed optimism to rise from its ashes.