Sending A Little Love Across The Seas
Just had to let everyone know about AfricanKelli. It’s a wonderful blog by a wonderful girl who takes frequent trips to Africa to care for children who aren’t as fortunate as we are. Very less fortunate.
She will be heading to Mozambique in May and is asking that volunteers send plastic baggies filled with goodies like soaps, toothpaste, dental floss, pencils, stuff that you would think everyone in the world would have a right to, these little kids don’t. Imagine your kids happy with a bag full of soap and toothpaste. Laughable, isn’t it? It kinda makes me angry that these kids have so little that they can be excited about basics like that.
I decided to participate and hopefully will be sending a couple of them out. It also gives me an opportunity to try to write in Portuguese, since this is the official language of Mozambique and volunteering requires that you write a note in both English and Portuguese.
I hope that this inspires you to participate as I think little things like this help immensely by directly impacting the lives of these children. For more information on this, go to AfricanKelli’s blog here.
on April 24th, 2007 at 2:53 am
thank you for mentioning this project on your blog. i am excited about participating as well- but like you I too feel angry that there are children in the world for whom a package of toothpaste and soap is a very special treat. it’s not fair.
on April 25th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
i’d love to learn more about this project. I think it would be a great way for Sophie to understand that there are kids out there who don’t get anything they want. Please give me more info next time you come to meetup. Thanks for posting about this.