In Reply to: What would you do? posted by Baldie on Friday, 30. March 2007 at 08:20 Bali Time:
we have a Balinese friend that we have known for over 10 years. He had never asked us for anything until 2005 but this was after we had offered him some money. Late last year he sent me an sms asking if we could send him some money because his daughter was sick. We had a friend going the next weeks so we sent some money over. WE had previously said that we would pay schoold fees. Then a little while after another sms asking for money to help pay for his new bike. I called him ans told him that we would love to help him but we just could not afford to but we would pay for his daughters school fees and that maybe he could ask another of his Aussie friends. He said that was ok. We are still good friends and we still help if we want to. He has never asked for money sinec we made it clear that we would only pay the school fees.