Letter Writing Dos and Don’ts

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DO (to benefit your child)

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• Correspond at least once every three months with your sponsored child.

• Tell them about things you enjoy doing in your spare time.

• Tell them about your job, school and family.

• Share your walk with Christ with them.

• Share your dreams for your future.

• Tell them about your hobbies and interests.

• Tell them about interesting places you have visited.

• Include pictures of your family and about your life.

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DON’T (to protect your child and yourself)

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• Don’t send gifts. (A birthday and Christmas donation for your child can be added to your monthly sponsorship funds.You can suggest what you would like Pastor Francis to purchase for you.)

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• Don’t promise anything you can’t keep. This includes mentioning that you’d like to visit ‘sometime.’ To a lonely child this means you are coming in the next few weeks.

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• Don’t make any type of suggestion that you may want to adopt them or bring them to the US.

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• Don’t give personal mailing information or phone numbers for your privacy.

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• Don’t share personal financial information with them.

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For all correspondences, please include the full name of the orphan or widow that you are writing to.

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Use the "File Upload" to send photos. Handwritten letters can also be scanned and saved on your computer as a pdf file and attached through "File Upload". Your file size is limited to 15MB.