In Reply to: thanks for the offer posted by bali smiles on Tuesday, 3. August 2010 at 20:38 Bali Time:
There are many like this in Bali that people don't see. No healthcare is always an issue, we deal with very traditional families so they fear western medicine (no immunizations either), I am dealing with school sores at the moment, very hard to contain as 90% of the children don't have bathrooms so hard to keep them clean. Sounds great that people are getting homes, a lot of the people in our village still live in the grass huts, we've built a few homes ourselves but that's for staff or for our sponsor kids families.
I have the uniforms made by a tailor here in Bali. Try contacting some schools in Australia to fundraise, one year 7 class in South Australia raised the money in 14 days for all the uniforms this year, I'm in Bali so harder for me to contact schools but there are thousands of schools interested in doing this, the private schools are the easiest. Often kids have casual clothes day and they pay $1 each, that's going to raise a lot of money. I can give you the contact of a tailor (ours don't have to wear the belt for SDN) 70,000rp covers 1 shirt, 1 pants/skirt, 1 hat, 1 pair socks, of course for a child with no older siblings just attending you need all the uniforms but we work with the whole school so the kids get one new one of a different type each yea and then can hand down to their siblings. Shoes are another issue, they are more expensive.
Our family has another business in Kararangasem and employ 20 local woman so that's why I thought I could help as we know the government there very well.
Keep up the good work and try some schools, you'll be surprised how many want to help and how quickly they can raise money.