In Reply to: donating baby clothes & toys? posted by richosbali on Thursday, 14. January 2010 at 12:43 Bali Time:
Warm clothing is very much needed and not only for babies/children. Balinese living in the mountains are extremely poor & desperately in need of everything, especially warm clothing - and shoes & socks. Food too.
Balinese on the coastal tourist strip of Tuban, Kuta, Legian, Seminyak & now Canggu cry poor. And by our standards they are very poor. But they have shoes, their kids go to school & don't suffer from malnutrition. Often the parents are paying off vans. They even drink bottled water. In the mountains they are starving, literally. You can't see the utter poverty as the villages are mostly inaccessible - out of sight, out of mind?? Sadly, yes.
Contact SmudgeUK. Search the archives for his reports on his trips to very remote places in the mountains (if they haven't been deleted - only nice stuff about Bali here).