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I'm going to add two countries to my #PassportLitsy list -- Pakistan (Umerkot, above) and Sudan (River Atbara, below). My family sponsors two little girls and their families and villages through #PlanInternational and these are their countries. They are my babies as much as my own babies are and I want to honor them with my reading. @steverogers
drokka What a fabulous idea! 8y
mrsmarch @drokka Which part? Lol 😂 8y
drokka I was meaning adding books to places that mean something to you on top of the rest of the challenge, but the sponsoring of families is also fabulous. 😃 8y
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mrsmarch @drokka I wanted to check before I started spewing bluebirds of happiness all over the page 🕊 8y
CouronneDhiver Oh cool! I'm pleased to find out another Litten is a child sponsor... I have five little girls. 8y
mrsmarch @CouronneDhiver FIVE!! 😍😍😍😍😍 That's absolutely heroic! I also love how we've targeted our support toward girls. Have you been happy with your sponsorships? I'm a new sponsor so I spend a lot of time being anxious. 8y
CouronneDhiver Yes @mrsmarch it's been the most rewarding experience ... I've been sponsoring for about 10 years. My current girls, who I've had for about 2 years, are all 7 and 8 years old and we're at a really fun stage of exchanging cards and colouring pages. I love it. It takes time to overcome the SLOW mail systems and to bridge the cultural gap but it will be worth it. 8y
mrsmarch @CouronneDhiver My girl in Pakistan just turned a year old. I started her sponsorship when she was only 7 mos. Her parents sent me a letter thru an interpreter on her 1st birthday and they added baby's handprint in purple ink at the bottom. I nearly sobbed when I saw it. I added sponsorship of a 7 y.o. in Sudan this summer and I've only sent her a postcard, but I'm hopeful where bc she's older she will send drawings and the like. 8y
CouronneDhiver Awww 😍😍😍 her little handprint?! That's beautiful. I totally would have bawled too. 8y
Natasha.C.Barnes Oh my god, this is the sweetest story I've ever heard. 8y
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