Kirsty Sword Gusmão
Kirsty Sword Gusmão, (born Kirsty Sword; 19 April 1966) is an Australian-East Timorese activist who served as the First Lady of East Timor from 2002 until 2007. She was married to Xanana Gusmão, former prime minister and president of East Timor, though they separated in 2015. She is the founding director of the Alola Foundation, which seeks to improve the lives of women in Timor-Leste, a nation with one of the world's lowest per capita GDPs. Early years and education Sword was born in 1966 in Melbourne, Australia, to schoolteachers Brian and Rosalie Sword, and was raised there and in Bendigo. She attended Eaglehawk Primary School, where her father was the principal and her mother a music teacher in the 1970s. She was taught her first Indonesian words by her father when she was four years old. She was a promising ballet dancer, but decided not to pursue it as a career. As a teen, Sword travelled to Bali and Jakarta with her father and brother. After Golden Square Secondary ...
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First Lady Of East Timor
The first lady of East Timor (Portuguese language, Portuguese: ''Primeira-dama de Timor-Leste'') is the title attributed to the wife of the president of Timor-Leste. First ladies of Timor-Leste First ladies of East Timor during the War for Independence First ladies of Timor-Leste following the restoration of independence References

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