These photos are some that we took during our two visits to the Negara orphanage in August 2005.

They give some indication of the conditions at the orphanage; conditions that persuaded us to support them when we visited the previous year.

We believe that a group of Dutch people are preparing to erect a new building for them about 6 kilometres out of Negara where it is hoped they will not again be told to leave their 'home'.

When this comes about there will be new needs for furniture and fittings, equipment and at least basic landscaping, transport problems to solve that will get the kids to school and a dozen other needs.

If you're in Bali and think you can help, take a day to drive out to Negara and find the orphanage, Panti Ashuan Alas Kasih. The drive is a very pleasant one, through a part of Bali that is both different from the usual tourist areas and yet the same in places. It will be a full day because there will be so much that you will want to stop and see, not the least being the spectacular temple on the shore at Pura Rambut Siwi. If you go there make sure that you go down onto the beach to see the many caves and the sacred spring which are rarely visited.

If you can't think of anything else that might help them you can be assured that rice, fish, meat and vegetables or money to pay the school fees and gas and electricity bills will always be very welcome.

Alas Kasih, in the main street of Negara. The location is valuable so the orphanage must move, for the second time. The broken wall is a warning of what is to come. The original buildings (just visible here on the right) is now a refuse collection site and the orphanage is located further down the driveway in the rearmost building.

A bed-full of stuff for stuffing in the toiletry bags.

Filled bags on the floor at the side of the bed in the Sinar Bali hotel, Legian. Un-filled bags and face cloths (top right corner) remain on the bed.

The battery powered toy dog which walked, woofed and turned backward summersaults, did not get turned off.

It was a good thing that we brought a raft of batteries for it.

Copies of the new Indonesian language 'National Geographic' were attention grabbers.

Herself, of course,  could not resist the new pup. We dread what might become of it.

Assembled for the girls only geography quiz - - - - - -

- - - - and the winner is an astounded Bella.

Arsa, the winner of the all-in geography quiz, with his laptop computer. 

Arsa, Bella and Rini (Dalbadi's wife and mother to them all) will all have computing lessons until they are confident users and can pass on basic skills to the other children.

Four boys rooms in a row. Yes, they are bars on the window. The old girls dormitory was through the door in the distance until the roof caved in.

One of the boys rooms.

Two to six might sleep here with mattresses on the floor if necessary.

Two more boys rooms on the left and the toilet/mandi block on the right.

At least its not far to walk if you have to get up in the night.

The boys mandi. (Toilet and bathroom.) Don't you just love it.

The mandi is the space in front of the water tank which has a plastic water scoop in it. The toilet is behind the water tank to the left.

The second photo is as close as I wanted to get to it. The floor level hole in the short wall below the toilet is the drain which leads to the grass area outside.

The partition wall down what was the recreation room now divides off the new girls dormitory. This section has the only tiled floor.

Derry and Paulina by their bed in the dormitory. Don't look at the broken piece of mirror on the wall or you might have nightmares.

Double bunk beds save space. Arlin and Genno share the bottom bunk.

Don't look up at where you might expect to find a ceiling.

The bearded character by the door is Loren, an ex-pat Aussie now teaching in Java, who comes over to Bali about every 3 months to help out with finances raised by a group of charitable fund raisers in the Kimberly region of Western Australia and to do whatever else he can manage.

Beautiful Evi and Luh Sri with long black, shining hair.  Little Yeyen is new and has not found a best friend yet.

The girls mandi and toilet. They have two at the end of their dormitory and they have newly tiled floors.

The area outside the girls mandi is a soakage and laundry area.

Martinus and Markus eat together. Martinus is a scout.

This is the well, to the right is the wall of the 'dining room' and further to the right of that is the staff toilet and mandi.

It is not surprising that the well water is a bit polluted with things that I wouldn't want to mention.

The area around the well is used for dish washing too, so that the water soaks back into the ground and is not wasted.

Dishwashing on the wall around the well.

The driveway down to the orphanage which is past the old orphanage, now a re-cycling centre seen here on the left. The flags are those of Indonesia and are decorations for the celebration of the country's 60th Independence Day on the 17th of August, 2005.

Photos of all the kids are at '05Negara1.

More photos of our 2005 trip are at Bali 2005 which you'll find about half way down the left side of our home pages index.

Our Home Pages are at www.filosbali.net.

Tips for Bali tourists are at www.filosbali.net/ForumRecom.htm but its a very big file and you'll need to give it plenty of time to load right to the end.

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