East Bali Poverty Project

The Bali Dynasty has committed to giving a little back to those less fortunate ever since the inception of the Bali Dynasty Charity Effort. It was established in April 2000 to support the educational needs and provide future sustainability to children and their families in a remote area of North Eastern Bali in conjunction with the East Bali Poverty Project.

Up until 2003, the Bali Dynasty Resort supported the two village schools of Cegi and Pengalusan and following additional support from a community in Holland the Bali Dynasty Resort are focusing now on improving the lives of over 65 children in the remote village of Pengalusan. Recently, as part of a management teambuilding, and much to the amusement of the kids and villagers, 10 of the resort’s senior managers including three expatriates spent two days decorating the inside and outside of the school to provide a more convivial working environment for the over 60 children. Robert Kelsall, General Manager and initiator of the charity concept in 2000 commented, “It’s a great opportunity to not only build better teamwork amongst our management team, but the same time it enables us to realize that there are a lot of people much worse off than ourselves and enables us to give them encouragement and a greater hope for the future. Everyone came away with a great sense of achievement!”.
Fund raising for the project is done mainly through the resort’s visitors who are encouraged to participate in various event such as the Annual back to Bali Dynasty Party in Perth as well as in house activities such as Quiz nights in Gracie Kelly’s Irish pub every Tuesday and Thursday evening and denote in the charity donation boxes. For fun, department heads are fined for note completing work or duties on time and not being able to answer questions in the weekly product knowledge quiz. Staffs are encouraged to participate through purchasing items from the bazaars that are held where all proceeds go to project.
The objective of the project is to educate the children how to become self-sustainable through a unique curriculum, which includes organic farming. The Dynasty is proud to have been able to purchase some produce back, proving how sustainable the project really is.
To date the Bali Dynasty Resort stands as the East Bali Poverty Project’s number two largest supporter behind Thames Water who developed the infrastructure for providing water from a mountain spring to the many hamlets in the area who had previously had no such resource. (BTN/*)