Comments on: So Long Sumatra, Thanks for the Fruit Shakes http://www.nerdynomad.com/2010/02/23/so-long-sumatra-thanks-for-the-fruit-shakes/ Backpacking around the world on my income from the internet. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:25:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: American Bison http://www.nerdynomad.com/2010/02/23/so-long-sumatra-thanks-for-the-fruit-shakes/#comment-44359 Mon, 05 Apr 2010 02:28:02 +0000 http://www.nerdynomad.com/2010/02/23/so-long-sumatra-thanks-for-the-fruit-shakes/#comment-44359 That's great to hear about the work that you've done Kirsty, Kind of shocked to hear about the culture differences, but I guess that's how it is, hehe. That’s great to hear about the work that you’ve done Kirsty, Kind of shocked to hear about the culture differences, but I guess that’s how it is, hehe.

]]> by: Scott@ Forex Robot http://www.nerdynomad.com/2010/02/23/so-long-sumatra-thanks-for-the-fruit-shakes/#comment-44019 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:54:09 +0000 http://www.nerdynomad.com/2010/02/23/so-long-sumatra-thanks-for-the-fruit-shakes/#comment-44019 I wish I could do stuff like that. It would be awesome to go help out with relief in other countries and travel the world. I wanna visit so many different places one day. I wish I could do stuff like that. It would be awesome to go help out with relief in other countries and travel the world. I wanna visit so many different places one day.

]]> by: portable sauna http://www.nerdynomad.com/2010/02/23/so-long-sumatra-thanks-for-the-fruit-shakes/#comment-43531 Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:27:50 +0000 http://www.nerdynomad.com/2010/02/23/so-long-sumatra-thanks-for-the-fruit-shakes/#comment-43531 I just see your blog from about an hour and i enjoyed reading it and i like your action on helping people I just see your blog from about an hour and i enjoyed reading it and i like your action on helping people

]]> by: pktan http://www.nerdynomad.com/2010/02/23/so-long-sumatra-thanks-for-the-fruit-shakes/#comment-43502 Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:01:13 +0000 http://www.nerdynomad.com/2010/02/23/so-long-sumatra-thanks-for-the-fruit-shakes/#comment-43502 Always enjoyed reading your thoughts & feelings after each place! Lookin forward to the post on Haiti ! Always enjoyed reading your thoughts & feelings after each place! Lookin forward to the post on Haiti !

]]> by: trueprotein discount http://www.nerdynomad.com/2010/02/23/so-long-sumatra-thanks-for-the-fruit-shakes/#comment-43240 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 03:40:44 +0000 http://www.nerdynomad.com/2010/02/23/so-long-sumatra-thanks-for-the-fruit-shakes/#comment-43240 visiting other countries can be quite the learning experience. Its cool that you help out the less fortunate. visiting other countries can be quite the learning experience. Its cool that you help out the less fortunate.

]]> by: used tires http://www.nerdynomad.com/2010/02/23/so-long-sumatra-thanks-for-the-fruit-shakes/#comment-43168 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:02:06 +0000 http://www.nerdynomad.com/2010/02/23/so-long-sumatra-thanks-for-the-fruit-shakes/#comment-43168 Looks it was quite an experience. Too bad about the overly conservative people that kept on suspecting you but I guess that is only to be expected sometimes. I can't believe how green the surroundings are. Working in that forest surely boosted your health for sure. Till then, Jean Looks it was quite an experience. Too bad about the overly conservative people that kept on suspecting you but I guess that is only to be expected sometimes. I can’t believe how green the surroundings are. Working in that forest surely boosted your health for sure.

Till then,

Jean

]]> by: camerabags http://www.nerdynomad.com/2010/02/23/so-long-sumatra-thanks-for-the-fruit-shakes/#comment-43154 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:58:20 +0000 http://www.nerdynomad.com/2010/02/23/so-long-sumatra-thanks-for-the-fruit-shakes/#comment-43154 Travel the world helping people? Sounds great I am going to start following your blog it is very interesting. Travel the world helping people? Sounds great I am going to start following your blog it is very interesting.

]]> by: kangtatang http://www.nerdynomad.com/2010/02/23/so-long-sumatra-thanks-for-the-fruit-shakes/#comment-42994 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:15:27 +0000 http://www.nerdynomad.com/2010/02/23/so-long-sumatra-thanks-for-the-fruit-shakes/#comment-42994 Hello Kristy, You're really a great person, travelling around the world to help others. Love to read the article here about my country. thank you, regards <a href="http://kangtatang.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/bekasi-bersih-partisipasi-blogger-dalam-kegiatan-anjangsana-amprokan-blogger/" rel="nofollow"><b>kangtatang</b></a> Hello Kristy, You’re really a great person, travelling around the world to help others. Love to read the article here about my country.

thank you,
regards
kangtatang

]]> by: Jet Airways India http://www.nerdynomad.com/2010/02/23/so-long-sumatra-thanks-for-the-fruit-shakes/#comment-42846 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:49:32 +0000 http://www.nerdynomad.com/2010/02/23/so-long-sumatra-thanks-for-the-fruit-shakes/#comment-42846 Nice work Kristy! Helping needy peoples is great thing. I have just saved the link of HODR for future. Nice work Kristy! Helping needy peoples is great thing. I have just saved the link of HODR for future.

]]> by: Kirsty http://www.nerdynomad.com/2010/02/23/so-long-sumatra-thanks-for-the-fruit-shakes/#comment-41834 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:00:50 +0000 http://www.nerdynomad.com/2010/02/23/so-long-sumatra-thanks-for-the-fruit-shakes/#comment-41834 Thanks for the well-wishes everyone. @Fish Care I won't be passing your way... I'm flying in from NYC. That's great news about your move/travels! Keep me posted on how everything is going. @steve One of my many projects to catch up on. I don't know when I will get to an update but it's on my list! I'm hoping to get the ebook out within a couple of weeks... for sure before I get to Haiti. Well, hopefully. It's pretty much done and out for proofreading but I also need to build a simple landing page type site for it, set up the distribution and attempt to generate some buzz in that time. Lots to do! @erik Thanks for the email, I know a few of those sites. I actually touch upon this topic in my ebook and suggest that people head to a couple of other sites to read more on the topic as it's too broad and complicated for me to tackle. I raise some of the major issues but I leave the ethics of international volunteering up to each individual. In the case of Hands On, I will say that employing locals to do the work would be great except that that would be the end of Hands On very quickly. They aim to provide a great volunteering experience so that the volunteers will donate money and get their friends and family to donate money. This leads to more projects, more volunteers and more donation money. No international volunteers = substantially fewer funds to do the work with. I totally get where this argument is coming from but someone has to pay the locals to do the work and it can't be organisations like Hands On because they would die. Plus the type of work that HODR volunteers do is on such a small scale that government programs would be unlikely to fund workers to do them. But ya, these are the types of things potential volunteers should look into to make sure they're ok with how it all works. Thanks for the well-wishes everyone.

@Fish Care I won’t be passing your way… I’m flying in from NYC. That’s great news about your move/travels! Keep me posted on how everything is going.

@steve One of my many projects to catch up on. I don’t know when I will get to an update but it’s on my list! I’m hoping to get the ebook out within a couple of weeks… for sure before I get to Haiti. Well, hopefully. It’s pretty much done and out for proofreading but I also need to build a simple landing page type site for it, set up the distribution and attempt to generate some buzz in that time. Lots to do!

@erik Thanks for the email, I know a few of those sites. I actually touch upon this topic in my ebook and suggest that people head to a couple of other sites to read more on the topic as it’s too broad and complicated for me to tackle. I raise some of the major issues but I leave the ethics of international volunteering up to each individual.

In the case of Hands On, I will say that employing locals to do the work would be great except that that would be the end of Hands On very quickly. They aim to provide a great volunteering experience so that the volunteers will donate money and get their friends and family to donate money. This leads to more projects, more volunteers and more donation money. No international volunteers = substantially fewer funds to do the work with. I totally get where this argument is coming from but someone has to pay the locals to do the work and it can’t be organisations like Hands On because they would die. Plus the type of work that HODR volunteers do is on such a small scale that government programs would be unlikely to fund workers to do them. But ya, these are the types of things potential volunteers should look into to make sure they’re ok with how it all works.

]]> by: erik http://www.nerdynomad.com/2010/02/23/so-long-sumatra-thanks-for-the-fruit-shakes/#comment-41826 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:21:22 +0000 http://www.nerdynomad.com/2010/02/23/so-long-sumatra-thanks-for-the-fruit-shakes/#comment-41826 I'm curious why Hands On doesn't hire locals to do this manual labor. I'm sure they could use the money? Is there a shortage of labor there? Or is the work not something they would do? I've been thinking alot about aid work (inspired by you) but I have some real questions about sending outsiders into a place that needs the economic development that good wages doing local work could bring. (I sent you some links on these topics) I think this topic of imported, western-educated, manual-labor volunteers vs. paying locals decent wages to do the same thing would make an insightful post. Here's a good link: http://informationincontext.typepad.com/good_intentions_are_not_e/2010/01/how-to-evaluate-volunteer-opportunities-in-haiti.html Cheers! I’m curious why Hands On doesn’t hire locals to do this manual labor. I’m sure they could use the money? Is there a shortage of labor there? Or is the work not something they would do?

I’ve been thinking alot about aid work (inspired by you) but I have some real questions about sending outsiders into a place that needs the economic development that good wages doing local work could bring.

(I sent you some links on these topics)

I think this topic of imported, western-educated, manual-labor volunteers vs. paying locals decent wages to do the same thing would make an insightful post.

Here’s a good link: http://informationincontext.typepad.com/good_intentions_are_not_e/2010/01/how-to-evaluate-volunteer-opportunities-in-haiti.html

Cheers!

]]> by: Steve http://www.nerdynomad.com/2010/02/23/so-long-sumatra-thanks-for-the-fruit-shakes/#comment-41780 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:01:53 +0000 http://www.nerdynomad.com/2010/02/23/so-long-sumatra-thanks-for-the-fruit-shakes/#comment-41780 Kirsty, I admire your willingness to help people and to make a contribution and a difference. Good luck. On a different note, don't forget to keep your 2012 Olympics site updated. I'm counting on some good info to help me when the time comes. ;-) What's the status of the ebook? I want to buy one to help out. Kirsty, I admire your willingness to help people and to make a contribution and a difference. Good luck.

On a different note, don’t forget to keep your 2012 Olympics site updated. I’m counting on some good info to help me when the time comes. ;-)

What’s the status of the ebook? I want to buy one to help out.

]]> by: Sofia - As We Travel http://www.nerdynomad.com/2010/02/23/so-long-sumatra-thanks-for-the-fruit-shakes/#comment-41758 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:35:46 +0000 http://www.nerdynomad.com/2010/02/23/so-long-sumatra-thanks-for-the-fruit-shakes/#comment-41758 It's great what you do. There is always going to be people against you, but I'm glad you don't let them get to you. You seem to have a strong vision of what you want and really go for it, very inspiring! It’s great what you do. There is always going to be people against you, but I’m glad you don’t let them get to you. You seem to have a strong vision of what you want and really go for it, very inspiring!

]]> by: Roy Jones http://www.nerdynomad.com/2010/02/23/so-long-sumatra-thanks-for-the-fruit-shakes/#comment-41752 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:19:02 +0000 http://www.nerdynomad.com/2010/02/23/so-long-sumatra-thanks-for-the-fruit-shakes/#comment-41752 Sounds like a great experience, I've bookmarked the agency for future use! <a href="http://www.roylloydjones.com" rel="nofollow">Roy Jones</a> Sounds like a great experience, I’ve bookmarked the agency for future use!

Roy Jones

]]> by: Fish Care http://www.nerdynomad.com/2010/02/23/so-long-sumatra-thanks-for-the-fruit-shakes/#comment-41740 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:52:47 +0000 http://www.nerdynomad.com/2010/02/23/so-long-sumatra-thanks-for-the-fruit-shakes/#comment-41740 Sounds like your having a blast as always :-) Will you be passing by my way on your way to Haiti? After nearly 4 years I have handed my resignation in with plans to leave end of May so will be finally taking the plunge in the summer probably off to SE Asia first by way of the UK. Sounds like your having a blast as always :-)

Will you be passing by my way on your way to Haiti?

After nearly 4 years I have handed my resignation in with plans to leave end of May so will be finally taking the plunge in the summer probably off to SE Asia first by way of the UK.

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