OUR PEOPLE

Stuart Smith – one of Bali’s leading and most respected hotelliers, came on board with Bali Kids in 2006 and became our Chairman three years ago.

From humble beginnings, life taught him the importance of opportunity and how every child should be afforded a chance of a full and meaningful life.


A dedicated family man, Stuart has a lovely Balinese wife, Made Sri and two children. Bali Kids presented Stuart with a chance to give back to the Island he loves and now calls home. His unwavering commitment to Bali Kids has helped us already to achieve much. His commercial skills have also been vital to turning our dream of the new medical centre into reality.

Dr. Luh Putu Rismayanti (Dr. Risma) Medical Services Director

Birth: Denpasar, 20 February 1974
School: Fakultas Kedokteran Universitas Udayana, Bali (Faculty of doctor).
Level: University
"I feel so happy to work in Bali Kids.  While I gain more experience I have the bonus of doing something for disadvantaged children.  Especially those orphaned."

Birth: Gulingan, Mengwi, 29 July 1978
School: SPRG ( Sekolah Pengatur Rawat Gigi) Denpasar/ dental treatment subject
Level: Year 12
"I am so happy working at Bali Kids. Our charity is running very smoothly and getting bigger.  The kids are so wonderful to work with!"

Birth: Tebongkang, Ubud, 30 April 1985
School: Diploma III Akademi Keperawatan/ AKPER Rumah Sakit Dustira, Bandung, Indonesia.
Level: University
"I love helping the community on a social level and so happy I can help the kids!”

Birth: Singaraja, 7 January 1977
School: Diploma III, Politeknik Negeri Bali, Fakultas Akuntansi (Accounting University of Udayana, Bali)
Level: University
"At Bali Kids I have gained a great deal of experience and the organisation always continues to improve and develop."

Komang Gede Dharma Putra (Dharma) Operations Coordinator

Birth: Denpasar, 7 October 1976
School: Diploma III, Food and Beverage Division Program, STP Nusa Dua Bali (tourism high School). Strata 1 (STIMI) Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Manajemen Indonesia, Economic subject, (Management of Economic University)
Level: University.
"I am very proud and happy working for Bali Kids.  We have open and clean Management and it is a friendly environment. The kids often make us laugh."

Mrs. Trudy Mentink-Nijssen Founder of Foundation Bali Bundar

Trudy is Dutch, married to Huub who is the Chairman of Bali Bundar since September 2010, and has two grown up children. Since September 2010 Trudy has mostly been involved in fundraising and PR for the Foundation.

During her working life she was a Human Resource assistant for various companies and later for their own business. In 2005 Trudy visited Bali for the first time and immediately felt that help was needed. That’s how the Foundation Bali Bundar was started, March 2006. From the beginning she had contact with Bali Kids, at that time only a small clinic. She was and remains, very aware of the need of the work Bali Kids does. When the orphanage started she immediately offered to raise money to send all the children in the orphanage to a good school. Until today Foundation Bali Bundar has covered most of the children's school fees.

When the building plans came up Bali Bundar offered to raise around € 150.000. Until now € 150.000 has been raised by Bali Bundar.

Beside fundraising skills Trudy tries to bring people and organisations together. For example, Barry and Joyce Walsh became involved in Bali Kids via Trudy. Other projects of Bali Bundar are now connected with Bali Kids. On a great distance from Bali she manages to connect people together, to work together and to help together.

Helping the children in Bali and especially Bali Kids is now one of the main goals in her life.

John Begg MBA

John is a Director of a private consulting company that specialise in a number of boutique business fields including property development, business management and marketing. His portfolio of clients includes private companies and the charitable, not for profit sector.

John and his family have been regular tourist to Bali over many years and became involved in Bali Kids just on 5 years ago.  Since then John and his wife Keryn have been strong supporters in promoting Bali Kids in Australia, financial support, sponsorship and host family to a young girl from Bali Kids who attended High School in Australia.

In 2010, John was appointed to an advisory position to Bali Kids, whilst Keryn continues her work as the Victorian Project Coordinator.

“From our very first visit to Bali Kids we saw and felt the genuine passion and warmth of all the staff towards the kids.  We knew then that this was a special place: professionally run, financially accountable and full of energy to make their lives better. We never hesitated to be involved and only wish we had more time to do so.

Dr Barry Walsh,B.D.S.N.U.I., F.D.S.R.C.P.S. (Glas), F.I.C.D., F.R.A.C.D.S.,

Born in Ireland, Barry has been living and working in Western Australia for some 30 years now. His practice services the small community of Kojonup and there is now a third generation of patients attending for dental care.

Barry before coming to Australia held several academic appointments at Universities in the UK, South Africa and the United States, the last with the rank of Professor. Barry has been involved in the management of the local hospitals and district health authorities, holding positions as Chairman of the Hospital board and of the Regional Health Authority.

Barry’s continuous commitment to further education has seen him recently complete qualifications from Adelaide University and become a Fellow of the Royal College of Dental Surgeons. He has also been made a Fellow of the International College of Dentists.

Mrs Joyce Kruijswijk-Walsh

Joyce was born in the Netherlands, but has been living for some 14 years now in Australia with Irish husband Dr. Barry Walsh and their 11 year old son Rory.

Joyce and Barry operate a rural/remote dental practice catering to the needs of a large and widespread population.

Prior to coming to Western Australia Joyce has worked in London as a sales co-ordinator for some 3 years, and a large homecare company in the centre of Holland.

Since her arrival in Kojonup she has managed with tremendous success the Kojonup Dental Clinic through her own company.

Joyce and Barry first became involved with Bali Kids in 2005. Since then they have actively developed the facilities whereby dental care is provided to the children at the orphanage and all the other orphanages serviced by the health care centre set up by the Bali Kids.

Joyce and Barry will outfit the dental unit in the new BK centre, they also currently screen and advise volunteers that wish to provide services to BK.

Joyce contacted Trudy after reading a Dutch “Womens” magazine article (Libelle) which her mother in Holland had send over in the mail, where BaliBundar and BaliKids was featured.