vendredi, mars 23, 2007 Sponsoring a child + travel plans  After much hemming and hawing and ignoring the starred email in my gmail account, I've finally put my money where my mouth is and have started sponsoring a child under World Vision's child sponsorship programme.I've thought about it off and on for the last year or so, and the one thing which I was afraid of most was defaulting on my payments due to an uncertain paycheck flow. I decided to take the plunge anyway, and was pleasantly surprised to see that World Vision (whom I've already had a good impression with anyway) does address this in their sponsorship literature - it's okay if you need to stop payments, you just have to tell them. There's no judgement involved, and somehow, everything leads me back to another common theme which has been running through my life - the seasons that exist in our lives. (But that post for another time.) My kid was born on the same day as me, except 19 years later. That was my selection criteria - girl, born on my birthday. My ex-colleagues in the office were riding me on my "egocentric" selection criteria, but my defence was that some of THEM picked their kids because they were "cute", so how much more un-scientific was that? Her father's dead, her mother's remarried, and she stays with her grandparents. She's still in kindergarten, having failed one level. I'm hoping to visit on the third week of June, and I welcome anyone who wants to join me for a quick jaunt up north. I promise it will be nitty, gritty, and educational. What more can anyone ask for in a good trip? I'm serious about the invitation to come with me to visit the kid and the project area that she's in - you know how to contact me. And if you don't, there's always the private comment function. Libellés : humanitarian, issues [Sponsoring a child + travel plans] |
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