New Look at the children’s school, a brighter future for the children
On the 5th October 2007, ten of the Bali Dynasty Resort’s Management team led by Robert Kelsall, General Manager of the Bali Dynasty Resort, set off at 5.30am in the morning and headed North East to the small remote hamlets of Pengalusan and Cegi. This is the location of the schools that the Bali Dynasty has supported since 2000. This was the second time in the last 2 years that the management team have painted the schools, both inside and out.
The visit to the schools was arranged with the help of the founder and chairman of East Bali Poverty Project (EBPP), Mr. David J. Booth and his team.
The Dynasty Team were joined by the senior and even some of the younger students who were also eager to take a part in making their facilities fresh and bright.
The Dynasty Team arrived at the village at 09.00am and were enthusiastic to get started.
The pace of the work surprised everyone and by mid day, they were ready to paint the second school which was also completed in record time.
For the children who painted with them, it was fun, for Dynasty staff, it was a joy to see the children take so much pride in the task of upgrading the look of their schools. The final reward was the look on the children’s faces when they arrived and saw their newly painted classrooms.
The East Bali Poverty Project (EBPP) is a non-profit organisation established in 1998 by a British resident of Bali after an appeal for help by an isolated mountain community, forgotten by time and progress.
Participatory community surveys in mid -1998 showed that thousands of people lived in abject poverty without water, sanitation, roads, schools, health facilities and electricity. Illiteracy was up to 100%. Malnutrition and iodine deficiency disorders were endemic, iodine being the essential nutrient for healthy child births, brain and body development.
The East Bali Poverty Project mission is to empower illiterate and malnourished children through relevant education, improved nutrition and basic stay healthy principles; and to reduce poverty and promote culturally sensitive sustainable development in impoverished rural communities that have little or no choice to alleviate their own plight.
The Resort certainly uses innovative ideas to raise money for the charity effort. Apart from Bali Dynasty guest donations, the Resort holds Charity Quiz Nights every Tuesday and Thursday at 8.30pm at its Gracie Kelly’s Irish Pub. Money is further raised during weekly guest Bingo games and even the Resort’s Management and also has just been issued recently that every departuring guest supports the children by giving US$1. The Dynasty Management Team and Staff also donate through Staff Bazaars and a Management Quiz. With a 60% returnee factor from the Australian market it is the Bali Dynasty’s Australian guests who are the main contributors which is further enhanced by the Resorts major annual Charity fundraiser, the ‘Back to Bali Dynasty’ party, which is held in Perth Australia each year.
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