A letter from a sponsored Compassion child
This is the final assignment for Compassion’s Blog Month. I’m glad to have been able to participate in this exercise and am excited that Compassion is only 76 sponsors away from reaching the goal of having 3,108 newly-sponsored children for the month of September!
I must admit, this one has been the most difficult for me to do because I’ve been going in about 55 different directions when I read the instructions, which included this statement:
You are a child living in extreme poverty. What do you have to say?
This is my feeble attempt at trying to capture the mind of a child who has just received word that she is going to be able to go to school at the Goba Meserete Kiristos Church Student Center in Ethiopia. Of course, you have to suspend disbelief just a little bit because a six year old girl with little-to-no schooling isn’t going to write very much except አመሰግናለሁ (amesege’nallo’ – “Thank you.”), but I think you get the idea. Right?
I chose to write from the perspective of a little girl who is still in need of a sponsor. You can find her on this page if you’re interested in sponsoring her.
Dear My Sponsor,
A nice lady from the church down the street came to see me today. She told me that you are going to help me be able to go to their school so I can learn how to write and to read better. I love to read! My favorite story is the one about the elephant and the pelican. I want to be able to read better so I can read stories and the Bible to my family. I liked Kindergarten and hoped I could keep going to class after finishing Kindergarten. But my mom could not find work and could not afford to send me to school. I am so excited to be able to use my pencils! I have been wanting to use my new pencils ever since that nice man in the van handed them to me through his window.
I really like helping Mama make injera. I am not very good at it yet, but she keeps telling me to practice. One day I hope to be as good a cook as she is. I also want to help stop my friends from getting sick. My friend down the street, Gebereal, has gotten really sick. I think I heard someone say he has something called malaria. I was just playing soccer with him last week. I am very sad for him. He is not the first of my friends to get sick like this. I hope he is OK. I hope he gets better. I hope no one else I know gets sick like this. I want to learn how to stop everyone from getting so sick. I want to become a doctor and help other people like the nice people from Compassion do.
I would like to write more, but Mama says I need to run an errand. I hope I don’t see any dogs while I am out. They are so scary!
Thank you for showing me Jesus. I love him and I know he loves me. I want to sing to Jesus all day long. Thank you for being My Sponsor.
Amesege’nallo’!
Please consider sponsoring a child today so children like Mihret can be released from spiritual, economic, social, and physical poverty!
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