In Reply to: I don't often agree with you posted by Moreno on Monday, 4. February 2013 at 07:42 Bali Time:
We get people asking if their teenager could volunteer with us for 2 weeks so they can see how fortunate they are by seeing underprivileged children. I wonder where the helping the children at our end actually enters into that. I don't have time to spend 2 weeks taking around a privileged child who cannot help me in anyway as they don't speak the language, probably wont like the food or the sleeping or bathroom conditions and want out of there back to mummy and daddy after day 1, I am not a babysitter.
Then I get people wanting to be pen pals to our kids with photos of their homes in Australia.......I don't get this, why send a kid that lives in a grass hut a photo of a nice big house in Australia.
There are some posters on here that have a long standing relationship with Orphanages or sponsor children and and devote a lot of their time on their Bali trips, their money and hearts on every trip to them and do it for the right reasons.