In Reply to: Yes it's terrible being patient lol posted by Tuberose on Tuesday, 30. January 2007 at 17:20 Bali Time:
The emails to me are in no way limited.
It's the emails to the sponsor students, that we have to curtail.
The reason for this, is we have to get one of our team members to go to the Telcom shop in Singaraja to get the email, translate it, then take it to the student's home ( which can be an hour or more away). Return to the student's home a few days later to pick it up, translate it again, then back to the Telcom shop to send it.
Can you imagine what it would be like if the team in Bali had to do this for repeated emails to students, we have 370 students. They wouldn't be able to do anything else.
They also have to hold down their own full time paid job or for the team members who are still at Uni, they still have lectures and home work, as well as the foundation day to day running
A "Pen Pal" service would be nice, but the sponsorship programme what we do, to do it well it's all that we can manage.