A few months ago, we started sponsoring a little girl in Honduras. We received our first letter from her, which I'm pretty sure her mom outlined and she colored. The letter was written entirely in Spanish, so it was fun for the kids and I to figure out how much we could read of it before looking at the translation that was included. We were able to understand most of it, and now the children want to try to write her a couple of short notes in Spanish.
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| Our first letter from our sponsor child |
The organization we went with is heavily Christian, so there was a lot of "we'll pray for your family" included in the letter. I feel like a lot of it is obligatory, because they're being proselytized to constantly by this organization and likely assume that all sponsors are heavily Christian. We don't feel super comfortable about that aspect of it, but they do allocate their funds in ways that don't make me cringe, so there's that.
I wrote back a letter introducing our family, and opted for the internet form in hopes it would arrive faster. Since her birthday is in November, we also put together a package with a tiny coloring book, some pretty stickers, and a card. We're very limited in what we can send, and it cannot be over 1/4 inch. I had wanted to send some hair ribbons, but I guess that's not permitted anymore. But stickers are, and kids generally love stickers.
We're already looking forward to our next letter.
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