In Reply to: yes you are right posted by kristal on Saturday, 31. March 2007 at 16:26 Bali Time:
Thanks again Kristal for your thoughts on this. I have already looked at the Helen Flavel foundation site and recommend it to anyone else who wants to help the Balinese without confronting the "personal welfare project" issues we have discussed on this post. I guess we have all learned a lot from this discussion - I know it has made me consider things I had not even thought of before. The forum is a great place to seek advice, and hopefully issues can be raised and discussed, without fear of being ridiculed.
I think we will all have realised that we need to think more carefully about the meaning of friendships and the differences in culture when we do give money, but we also probably all agree that, in any culture, bludging is not acceptable.