As the letters start rolling in again, it's easier to be more motivated to write to the kids. I have to admit, I was really feeling less than motivated about writing monthly to all of my sponsor kids. I wondered if I had too many, and was starting to DREAD letter writing. Ugh.
I made the decision to send off online letters to my Compassion and World Vision kids for the month of April (I still sent off hard copies to my plant a book kids), and I started formatting some "form" letters of my own.
May's letters will be about where I live, and June's letters will be about what a typical day is like in my house. I also printed off a list of questions to ask my sponsored children.
All of that has me much more motivated to write to my kids again!
I also put in an inquiry about Sabnam, my girl from East India. I've been sponsoring her since August 2013, and have not received 1 letter that she had any input in to during my sponsorship of her. The 1st letter was the pre-written letter, and the 2nd was a list of what she purchased with the birthday gift money I sent her--no info about how she was doing, no drawing, nothing. And this was after I put in the inquiry about that gift. After some initial resistance, Compassion agreed to do an inquiry for me, because I am kind of wondering if she is even still attending the project.
I am still thinking about just dropping her without even waiting to see what the results of the inquiry are. I mean, unless they tell me she is longer at the project, do I want to spend another 6-8 months getting 1 letter from her that gives no information? Of course, letters from Nayan in East India have been picking up, and that also makes me wonder if letters from Sabnam will start picking up, as well.
Speaking of Nayan, his photo updated recently!
He still looks worried, but so much older! And more well nourished :-)
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