OK Bali - Clare Wolfowitz

My academic training is in cultural and social anthropology, and that is why Bali OK gives some anthropological perspective on Balinese life. And behind that, there’s a kind of fairytale story. I studied anthropology as a college student because of my interest in Indonesian culture — and that interest had developed out of having the amazing opportunity to stay with a family in Indonesia, as a high school student with the AFS exchange program.
Fast forward to about ten years ago, when I was invited to join the board of a remarkable organization that I had begun to support, called Health In Harmony. HIH was tackling the problem of the disappearing rainforest, and doing it with an unusual and creative approach. Their first (and at that time, only) site was in Indonesian Borneo. Health In Harmony began their work with a series of community meetings, held in every village in the area where they planned to work. In these meetings they asked people to share their ideas and their wish list: What would you need in order to stop logging the rainforest?