In Reply to: Totally understand posted by Nidds on Saturday, 23. February 2013 at 16:21 Bali Time:
I support a number of children and have given large sums of money to Balinese charities. I do it on THEIR terms. That is I give them what they need rather than what I don't need. I also don't visit Balinese children as some kind of spectacle.
Think deeply about your motives for visiting these children. Doing it to educate your own children is not an acceptable motive in my view. Poor children do not deserve to exist as "lessons" or entertainment.
If I were curt it's because I feel deeply about this issue. Poorly thought out 'sentimental' charity tourism is a bad idea. If you want your children to make local friends, there are kids everywhere in Bali.