Saturday 1484 – February 18th 2012
Those of you that regularly follow my blog will know that it was my birthday last Saturday ( you can read about that day here ) and I decided I would do something that I had been meaning to do again for a long time.
That something was sponsoring a child in another country. It was a sort of birthday present to myself . I figured there was nothing I needed that badly and a child in another country probably needed everything very badly.
I first sponsored a child many years ago, back in the late 1980’s. His name was Nicholas Tiliokoi and he lived in Kenya. I kept one of his letters for the past 22 years which you can see below. I’ve often wondered what became of him.
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I don’t know why it’s taken me so long to do this again but better late than never. Or is it?
The letter from Plan ( read about them here ) arrived yesterday. I had said I didn’t mind where the sponsored child was but I wanted it to be a girl because girls are still hugely discriminated against in the majority of countries in the world and rarely have the same opportunities as boys. It happened that the child I will be sponsoring is also in Kenya.
I was expecting to be pleased that I was giving a little girl a chance for a better life but instead I opened the letter with a heavy heart and shed tears for her and for all the other children and their families that still need this kind of help in Kenya and around the world 22 years on.
Below is a photograph of 10-year-old Carren the girl I will be sponsoring for the next few years.
