Core to TTS Bali Project is the Basic Education of Children

Core to TTS Bali Project is the basic education of children. Regardless of country, religion, age or gender, all children deserve the basic necessities of life, including education. TTS Bali Project supports the Helen Flavel Foundation and Alas Kasih Orphanage in Bali, Indonesia. The students we are endeavouring to help all come from severely disadvantaged homes and situations. We support individual children, as well as support various educational projects, thus having a positive effect on the lives of hundreds of children. Coordination of the TTS Bali Project and the underlying Aurora Bali Project is 100% volunteer with zero donation dollars used for administration. Donations directly benefit the children and their families. In a developing country like Indonesia a few dollars truly goes a long way!

TTS Bali Project

Aurora Bali Project

Helen Flavel Foundation Alas Kasih Orphanage

Helen Flavel Learning Center

You may Choose to Donate Towards:

A) Education: Core to the Helen Flavel Foundation and Alas Kasih Orphanage is sponsorship for the educational needs of students. One year, which includes all school fees, uniforms, and books is approximately $120 dollars US. As incredible as it seems, this amount can put a child in school for an entire year. A full year sponsorship or partial donation would be fantastic!

B) TTS Educational Projects: TTS Bali Project through Aurora Bali Projects helps fund various educational projects such as supporting the Learning Centre where hundreds of children study for free after school and on weekends, the group of "boarding" children living at the Learning Center or the Learning Centre Music Project. These and other projects are ongoing and can be followed through our articles and links posted below. Your donation would directly affect the lives of these many children. 

To Donate:

For now, please contribute in any amount that you're comfortable with by sending donations via PayPal to aurorabaliproject@yahoo.com.

Don’t Forget the Poor…

Don’t Forget About US

The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland has come and gone (February). I followed with some interest as the world economic woes seem to be having an impact on everyone. The world’s poor didn’t have a seat at the table, but U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon spoke for the “bottom 1 billion”. In 2008, the Forum gathered to declare 2008, the “year of the bottom 1 billion”. Now in 2009, I quote Ban:

“These are the poorest people who live on less than a dollar a day, who are vulnerable to every shock that comes…We must not waiver on our commitment to the poorest of the poor. We must stand by those who are most vulnerable.”

Maybe it is precisely because of the economic times that we may be able to connect more closely with people who are struggling. Perhaps a different level of struggle, but the ability to empathize can be an important step. Empathy is a true understanding and allows us to reach out to others.

TTS Bali Project Update

As I start my 6-week countdown to my return to Bali, I was wondering how my friends, the Foundation Team and the families of all of our sponsored kids and students are coping with world economic events? I got an interesting, yet simple email basically saying that people, “keep on keeping on…”

Peduli Sesama Helen Flavel Foundation

Volunteerism and involvement with Foundations or charity groups can be an amazing journey that often evolves over time. This has been my experience with the Peduli Sesama Helen Flavel Foundation (HFF). The internet has become a great forum for introducing like-minded people. Just over 3 years ago – in fact on the very trip when I met Gabrielle and Omid on my plane home to Japan, I met Helen Flavel for the first time in Bali. Through the internet, I had heard about an Australian woman who had started a foundation to educate the poor children in North Bali. After exchanging email, I visited North Bali and met Helen and Dewi (our LC director) on the site where the Learning Center was just being constructed. Sometimes things click in an indescribable way. I felt an immediate connection with both of them. On behalf of the Aurora Bali Project, I dropped off story books and educational materials, left money to help build bookshelves for the yet to be completed Learning Center, and most importantly committed to sponsoring 2 children. This is where the sponsorship of Rudi and Meiling started and where our journey with the HFF and the LC began.

Bali Summer News 2008

 

I am full of enthusiams for our projects? both in a sense of accomplishments and in a sense of future plans. Four weeks seems like a long time, but after cramming so many activities in, it really zoomed by! I also realized that for anyone to make sense of what we are involved with, I need to explain the main parts of our projects. TTS Bali Project will be involved with 2 main groups. Alas kasih Orphanage and situated in Negara in the west part of the Bali and the helen Flavel Foundation, located in North of Bali. I think the important of mentioning "west" and "north", is that both are far from the tourist enclaves of the south? even os this island.