About us

Konfiansa derives from the student organization Kria dalan.

Kria dalan is a collaboration between Norwegian and Timorese students with the aim of contributing to sustainable development.

A basic idea in the work behind Kria dalan has been to give young Timorese knowledge and tools to develop the country themselves. We take this with us in Konfiansa.

Our team

Konfiansa currently consists of four part-time employees in East Timor, and three volunteers in Norway.

Noviana Faria Simões (25)

Part-time employee, East Timor

Noviana studies development studies, and has been active in Kria dalan since 2018. She has also been involved in projects led by Unicef and WorldFish.

Jamie Gomes (30)

Part-time employee, East Timor

Jamie studies social economics, and has been active in Kria dalan since 2019. He has led several projects in the context of Kria dalan.

Håkon Noren (27)

Volunteer, Norway

Håkon is one of the founders of Kria dalan, and has been involved in the organization since 2017. He is now working on a PhD in applied mathematics and is very fond of good coffee.

Talal Mohammad (29)

Volunteer, Norway

Talal has two master's degrees, one in biology and one in global health, and now works as a research assistant in global health inequalities at NTNU. He has been active in Kria dalan since 2020.

Bjørge Bondevik (26)

Volunteer, Norway

Bjørge studies international business and politics, and has been active in Kria dalan since 2019. He is currently writing a master's thesis on how different forms of the coffee trade affect farmers' living conditions in East Timor.

Agostinha de Deus Lemos (23)

Part-time employee, East Timor

Ella studies chemistry and has been part of Kria dalan since 2021.

Moises Monteiro de Deus (27)

Part-time employee, East Timor

Moises studies development studies, and has been active in Kria dalan for several periods. He comes from Atsabe, the village where the coffee we currently sell comes from.

Contact information

Konfiansa is a project under the organization Kria dalan, based in Trondheim.

Kria dalan

Organization number: 919659998

Address: c/o Håkon Noren, Haldens gate 12.
7014 Trondheim

Contact: bondevik@konfiansa.no.

Volunteers and part-time employees in Konfiansa in East Timor