Sylvia.

meet my darling sylvia.

she is eight years old.

sylvia lives in uganda.

sylvia loves to sing, tell stories, and play with dolls.

she has a mother and a father and two siblings.

her father is sometimes an employed laborer.

sylvia's house hold duties are gather firewood and hauling water.

for the past 2 years i have felt that i should sponsor a child in a far off country. i kept putting it off, thinking i wouldn't be able to afford it. well that is a lie. after keeping track of what i spend a month on dining out i quickly learned that i could in fact afford not one but probably several sponsor children.

so i did it. no more procrastinating. that is how this beautiful little girl from uganda came into my life. i am currently in the process of writing my first letter to her which will include some pictures of my family.

there are plenty of different organizations in which you can sponsor children through but after doing much research i chose to go through compassion. i have also had a few friends who sponsored children through compassion and they have had nothing but good things to say about them. many of my friends have actually had the chance to go visit their sponsor child and have said it was life changing. i hope to someday have the same opportunity to meet little sylvia. this is why i picked child from africa.

if you have ever thought about getting a sponsor child, do it. don't procrastinate like i did. when i signed up it was like a rush of excitement. i can't wait to be able to communicate with this little girl on the other side of the world.