Erkulanu de Sousa

Erkulanu currently works for Oxfam Community Aid Abroad in East Timor where he is a Livelihood and CBDM Program Officer at the National office. After the OIYP in 2004 he formed a youth lead organisation at the Oecusse Enclave called Y-ACTS. This organisation is currently raising community awareness on the importance of a sustainable environment to meet the needs of the current generation. The organisation is also enhancing the traditional structure and norms of the community in order to have a community based management system that will last in the long term. Erkulanu believes that the conservation and deforestation issues that he works on will be greatly affected by international trade rules as developed countries start to place pressure on East Timor commit to bilateral and multilateral trading agreements. He hopes that the DTP training is a good opportunity for both him and his organisation to learn about the WTO system.