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Does anyone on here sponsor a child?
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Maz (the Royal One) in the East End 9256 | Report | 4 Jul 2008 21:02 |
If so, is it through World Vision, or Action Aid or another company? What has your experience of sponsoring been? If you don't want to reply on the board, I would welcome pm's :-)) Thanks! Maz. XX |
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°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º Little Nanna Lynn °º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º° | Report | 4 Jul 2008 21:04 |
Sorry Maz, i have no experience of this, but just wanted to say hi, and how good it is to see you on here |
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Cumbrian Caz~**~ | Report | 4 Jul 2008 21:04 |
Hi Maz, my Ex hubbie did, it was a lovely experience, i would like to do it again, |
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Maz (the Royal One) in the East End 9256 | Report | 4 Jul 2008 21:05 |
thanks for that Lynn ? :-)) I look in quite a bit but don't add much :-)) |
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Sue in Somerset | Report | 4 Jul 2008 21:07 |
We sponsored the education of an Indian boy some years ago. I can't remember which group we did it through but we had messages from the lad until he left school. |
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Maz (the Royal One) in the East End 9256 | Report | 4 Jul 2008 21:09 |
thank you Sue |
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SheilaSomerset | Report | 4 Jul 2008 21:16 |
Yes I do - with Plan - I sponsor a boy in Uganda. They are a good organisation, I get letters from him and information about the work of the charity. I was able to choose boy/girl and the area (i.e. Africa, Asia, you can't specify a country) or you can let the charity choose a child for you. I've found it very rewarding, as 'my' child started out not able to read or write but now goes to school and writes very well! |
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Maz (the Royal One) in the East End 9256 | Report | 4 Jul 2008 21:19 |
thanks Sheila - hadn't heard of that company - that's exactly the sort of information I wanted :-) |
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Sue in Somerset | Report | 4 Jul 2008 21:37 |
If I remember rightly we had a choice of Africa or India with the charity we chose. |
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Maz (the Royal One) in the East End 9256 | Report | 4 Jul 2008 21:59 |
thank you Sue, that's great information too :-) |
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Mandy | Report | 4 Jul 2008 22:46 |
We sponsor education for a young boy in Kenya. It is through a church-based charity: |
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Maz (the Royal One) in the East End 9256 | Report | 4 Jul 2008 23:10 |
thanks Mandy, another site to check! |
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Kay???? | Report | 4 Jul 2008 23:21 |
Yes,, |
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Michelle | Report | 5 Jul 2008 02:58 |
I sponsor a Africian Child through World Vision. I am sure I was allowed to pick which country the child was to come from, I have been and visited the village of a boy I used to sponsor in East Africa some years ago and got to see first hand the school, well etc that the WV community sponsorship was building for the area. |
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Maz (the Royal One) in the East End 9256 | Report | 5 Jul 2008 10:13 |
Thank you Michelle and Kay, that is really great to hear :-) |
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Debbie | Report | 5 Jul 2008 10:41 |
We sponsor a little boy Oratile, through world vision, we have sponsored this child for 9 years - he is now 14, we get regular letters and we receive a photo once a year also a christmas card and a little report from world vision that tells us how Oratile has developed over the year. |
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Roxanne | Report | 5 Jul 2008 11:04 |
I sponser through World vision,I have done for 15 years,I find it very worth while. |
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Karen in the desert | Report | 5 Jul 2008 11:04 |
We do. We have sponsored a boy in Ethiopia through World Vision for a few years now. He'll be 10 yrs old this July. |
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Chica in the sun ☼ | Report | 5 Jul 2008 11:15 |
Sponsored a girl in Bolivia from being a baby and it was very rewarding. |
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Debbie | Report | 5 Jul 2008 11:40 |
Chica in the Sun |