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Monday, 20 October 2008
compassion .

this morning, i got an email :

"Sadly, Bezuayehu is no longer participating in the Compassion Program. Bezuayehu’s family have bowed to the strong Orthodox religious pressure in her community and are not allowing her to attend any more.

We apologise that Bezuayehu is leaving so soon after you began sponsoring her. I trust you will understand that when a child is assigned to a sponsor, we have no way of knowing how long they will remain in the program. "

Then she asked me too look for another child or they'd re-assignment me another child. So, this afternoon I've been child shopping. That sounds terrible, but that's what it felt like. It felt so weird - as if I could have the right to pick and choose a child's future..

So picking a child? Where to start?

Firstly, I narrowed down the search to kids from Ghana, for some reason I feel like I'm more connected to this country just because Jackie is over there right now (even though I haven't heard from her in a while D:).

Which brought me to this page:

http://www.compassion.com.au/child_list.asp?strcountry=Ghana&intgender=&intage=&intday=&intmonth=&imageField.x=40&imageField.y=8

Even so, how could I choose from just faces and names? It's pretty difficult.


Justice Gyimah
http://www.compassion.com.au/child_details.asp?intid=18817
BEST name. JUSTICE. you don't want to mess with justice
& he has the same birthday as phoebe ! 26/9



Sabina Ofori
http://www.compassion.com.au/child_details.asp?intid=18826
Her name is Sabina ! Just one letter away from Sabrina! XD
& Her bday is in May (my month) WOO !

So many faces, so many useless reasons..

But I think I've made up my mind..

This is


Grace Makafui Bosso
http://www.compassion.com.au/child_details.asp?intid=18823

Most of you would know that I kinda already have a list of potential baby names, and so on my oh so sacred list was "Grace" but I already have two cousins with that same name. So I probably wouldn't choose it eventually. Maybe this is the chance to have a 'daughter' called Grace?

I wish I could sponsor them all, but right now.. I don't have the cash to do so. When I graduate, I'm definitely going sponsor another kid. There's nothing else better to do than to invest into the life of a child.

So what about you? Can you spare $40 a month?
That's less than a sushi roll a day .. or that top from Cotton On.
Do it, give to something that lasts.
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