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DOWM youth letter writing
Letter Writing Dos and Don’ts
DO (to benefit your child)
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Correspond at least once every three months with your sponsored child.
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Tell them about things you enjoy doing in your spare time.
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Tell them about your job, school and family.
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Share your walk with Christ with them.
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Share your dreams for your future.
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Tell them about your hobbies and interests.
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Tell them about interesting places you have visited.
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Include pictures of your family and about your life.
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.
For all correspondences, please include the full name of the orphan or widow that you are writing to.
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.
