Letters to their Potential Sponsors

Annety Chipuya #526 above and Purity Hasende #419 below

Both Annety and Purity were dressed to impress on picture day. Unfortunately, it is probably NOT because they were wearing their favorite dresses but that they were wearing their ONLY dresses. Like many children living on the bare minimum in Zambia, the clothes they receive are not new but rather tossed out clothes that have been salvaged and shipped in bulk to Africa. That is where a lot of used clothing goes. While here in the states, you can purchase used clothing, even then, there are many clothes that Goodwill and places such as that can not sell. In order to bring money in, they sell it in bulk and ship it out by the crates full to places like Zambia. In Zambia, one would purchase this clothing from someone local that goes door to door selling the clothes they have purchased in a bundle. It is a tricky business because a lot of times you can not tell what is wrapped up in the bundle to know if you will be able to make money by reselling the clothes. You take a chance, buy a bundle, and then, you get your items sold and hope to sell enough to make a living.

These beautiful girls both wrote letters to their potential sponsors. I want to share their letters with you because they took the time to fill out the long template and colored the picture on the side. They both express wanting to get letters from their sponsors.

For Annety, she writes that her favorite subject is English and her best friend is Josephine Chipuya. She wants to be a nun when she grows up. She says that she wants to learn a lot from her sponsor and hopes that they will keep communicating. She asks God to bless her sponsor.

For Purity, her favorite subject is math. Her best friend is Callen Chipuya. She wants to be a nurse so that she can help her mom and dad. She is an only child, and would like to hear from her sponsor.

If you would like to sponsor one of these girls, send an e-mail to macandmic@gmail.com