I am a sponsor now!
Jul. 13th, 2007 07:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormkeeper_lovedorisI have to tell you about something kind of exciting. Several weeks ago I had read an article about Women for Women International. Basically the way it works is that you agree to sponsor a woman in another country who has been impacted by war. You send a monthly donation that pays for her to get into this program that provides support, job training, rights awareness, etc. You also exchange letters with each other. So I signed up and today I finally got my sponsorship package!
The woman I'm sponsoring is named Saime, she lives in Kosovo, she's 43 and has 3 children. The only education she has received was some primary school, and she cannot read or write more than her name. She has lost more than 1 family member to war. The packet included a lot of other information about her but I won't go into a ton of detail here. I look forward to corresponding with her -- they have translators who will read the letters to those who are illiterate.
Women for Women helps women in several different countries -- Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Columbia, Congo, Iraq, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Sudan are the others. When I signed up, I didn't specify a country and instead checked "the area of greatest need".
I've always wanted to save the world and I know I can't do that, but I do hope I can help this one other person a bit.
The woman I'm sponsoring is named Saime, she lives in Kosovo, she's 43 and has 3 children. The only education she has received was some primary school, and she cannot read or write more than her name. She has lost more than 1 family member to war. The packet included a lot of other information about her but I won't go into a ton of detail here. I look forward to corresponding with her -- they have translators who will read the letters to those who are illiterate.
Women for Women helps women in several different countries -- Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Columbia, Congo, Iraq, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Sudan are the others. When I signed up, I didn't specify a country and instead checked "the area of greatest need".
I've always wanted to save the world and I know I can't do that, but I do hope I can help this one other person a bit.
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Date: 2007-07-14 08:07 pm (UTC)