Thank You Letters from Burkina Faso! (And a Translator!)

The girls who were sponsored for the 2011-2012 school year all sent thank you letters to their sponsor.  We have found a volunteer in Ohio who translated the letters from French to English.  We are hopeful this volunteer will allow the sponsors to be able to correspond via email more often with the girls they sponsor in Burkina Faso in the upcoming school year. 

One of the letters read

Dear L.-

It is with great joy that we, the parents of Samira S., send you our news.  Here, everything is going really well, the children are also doing very well, and we hope the same for you.  We want to say thank you so very much for your financial support for the education of our daughter.  And, it is with huge regret that we tell you our daughter must repeat the school year.  Being an illiterate family, we were not sure that sending the child to school was of great importance.  But we promise to ensure her studies next year especially with your financial support.  In advance, we send you great thanks and ask that God bless you and reward you a hundredfold for your kind deeds. 

The parents of Samira.

Here she is... our new volunteer translator. Tricia.  :)