My girl Prity attends this project.
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Dear Kayla,
My name is Pastor Djefry Warouw. I am the pastor of the protestant church Tulap where the Child Development Center, Noel, is located. It is the place where your sponsored child attends. We are located in North Sulawesi of East Indonesia.
Through this letter, I want to thank you for sponsoring and supporting Prity. Right now, there are 223 children that are enrolled and 214 of them are sponsored, while the rest of them are waiting to be sponsored. We are doing our best to maintain good work so that what is being done for these children will not be in vain.
The people in our community come from low economy and have a low educational background. The cost for daily needs and education is more expensive each year. To overcome this problem, the parents ask their children to help them to work. We have seen the need in our community to raise awareness to the parents about the importance of education. The center is to help solve this challenge and to support the children's education for their bright future.
Because these children spend their time helping their parents, they don't have time to spend and interact with their friends. After school (formal education), they go to help their parents. These children are very lack in the way they communicate and mingle with other children. There is a need of socio-emotional development for them. The center is here to raise awareness to the community about the children's education and furthermore about the positive impacts of holistic development. There is a lot of unemployment here. We hope that when we educate these children here, they will have a brighter future.
Not only for the community, the staff members have been impacted with the presence of the center. They get to learn about administration, finance, and character development. We uphold integrity and a servant leadership to run the center. We agree that these qualities are needed if we want to establish a strong center that gives positive examples for the children. Most of them don't have a high educational background. Their last education is primary school. They are trained and participate in various seminars and trainings; tutor training, administration, correspondence, children protection, and many more. They learn many new approaches to educate children.
This year, we have been trusted to recruit 20 more children. This is a blessing and we thank the Lord and to you that we can help more children who are in need. This means that we have to strengthen our skills in managing correspondence. This year, we received many sponsor letters. You have given Prity motivation to study harder. They are getting used to communicating with sponsors, to ask and answer questions, and to even share stories. Thank you for the prayers and gifts, too. You have shown them how to love and care for them.
For last, please keep praying for the children to grow in wisdom and faith in Jesus Christ so that they can have a brighter future. Please also bring our church in your prayers. We are building a new place for them to do their activities. Moreover, for our community to keep supporting the center and become child advocates. Thank you very much for reading this letter. My prayers are with you all who have sincere and loving hearts. You are far from us yet I believe Lord Jesus unites us in His grace and blessings. May all the best come upon you! We pray for you always.
God Bless You,
Pastor Djefry Warouw
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