Appendix III

Extract from a letter.

"A friend of mine had decided to sponsor a child, and solicited from six families in her street so that, they had a real community effort which produced its own interest. One of the men in this group was taking a World Tour and decided to call in on the child, who wrote every month, and whose picture they had.

To cut a long story short, the man could not find the orphanage in that town or in any other town (in Indonesia) of that name, and had to go on with the World tour without seeing to child.

On his return to Australia, my friend, (the one who collected the money etc.) wrote to World Vision asking what was wrong. They wrote and said they were sorry, the orphanage had been moved, and the child was not located in a certain village. Sorry for the inconvenience etc. However, when the child wrote the subsequent letters, they still came from the first address which the man had been unable to find.

Ruth Sutton