Writing to sponsor

MSC archived stories - November 27, 2021

The last night was very windy and cold in my part of the world, the sign of Christmas only a month away!

The virus has touched every one of us than any other events in history the world over – the climate crisis, migrant crisis to mention two. The challenges are part of all living being on this earth yet..

As sponsors, we often get to see the life beginnings through the eyes of a child, especially when receive 'CR' letters giving greater insight into their lives unaided by our questions/answers, but of pure random thoughts going through in their minds. I learn a lot from a child when they express things matter to them voluntarily in their own terms.

Juliana just wrote (saved to media) saying..

"It challenged me to understand what are the lessons that was been indicated in our module."

"You and my family are part of everything that I'm doing."

Whilst reading her own narrative I asked myself – what made her tell 'challenges' and my 'presence' valuable to her life, which to me has a profound meaning.

Just like how a child learns to talk at young, Juliana feels when writing to sponsor is fun, she wants to keep writing, the more she writes, the more she improves, and the more she improves, the more she wants to write – call it "Suzuki method" of learning adopted in music teaching but I think perfectly suited to our world of sponsorship too!

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