Development and Globalisation

I've just finished reading a fascinating book about the economics of globalisation (Open World by Phillipe Legrain) and it has made me put a lot of thought into the best way to help Yadua, and to analyse my own motivations.
I will try and be concise, as my thoughts could drift on this for hours, and explain myself.
I think it can be very easy for people in the developed world to want to preserve those in the developing world as they found them, but this is not a helpful or fair ambition. We ourselves are developing all the time, just think back ten years and compare the technologies that now pervade every aspect of our life, and consider how you would feel if someone tried to prevent you from using them.
However there is a worthy purpose behind this misguided approach, and that is to protect ecosystems and ways of life in these countries, yet this should happen side by side with further development.
My hopes for Yadua are not to keep the island frozen in the state I found it when living there. Yes, I would like to see the local environment protected and the reefs to remain in the same good condition, but in a perhaps ironic way, without allowing for development this idea is unsustainable. It would lead to an island entirely dependent on outside resources to resist change, and eventually when that cash flow dried up it would be left in freefall.
Instead I would like to see development of the island funded and encouraged to be done in an environmentally sound and sustainable way. Improving the local school will give children greater power over their own future, and perhaps lead to many of them moving away from the island, but if information about local customs and wildlife is taught alongside other subjects then they will be able to make their own choices as to the future of Yadua.
And I think that is perhaps the greatest gift that could be given to the villagers, the power to decide their own fate and the knowledge to make the right choices.
Money I have raised will go to some of the projects the island is working on, of which education is one. Though this could be seen as an unsustainable approach I hope that these funds are merely a way to start up the sustainable development of Yadua, and that in the future this will continue without outside funding.
The specific choice as to how to spend the money should be left with the village, though there are many ex-Greenforce people among others who should be regarded as a valuable resource for help and advice on making any big decisions.
Right now I am still waiting for the bank account details in Fiji so I can wire the money across, so there isn't much news on how it will be spent. However as soon as I find out more I will endeavour to update you all.