Archive for the 'Sponsorship' Category

Fatoumata’s annual progress report

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

Recently, I received a letter from a World Vision worker, which included the 2007 annual progress report for Fatoumata, a picture of her, and a drawing made by Fatoumata. Due to privacy concerns, I’ll not display a picture of Fatoumata on the web site. But I can show you how the report looks like. As […]

Communicating while sponsoring

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007

World Vision makes it very easy to communicate with your sponsored child. If your child cannot write yet or a language barrier exists, a World Vision worker will write you in the name of the sponsored child. The child I’m sponsoring is fife years old and speaks French. Though I learned French in school, my […]

Sponsoring a child

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

I decided in February of this year to sponsor a child again. I had done this before, but I had to quit this program when my financial resources prevented me from sending those monthly payments. After my financial resources had improved, I opted to support financially other programs for various reasons. But this year I […]