Suggested guidelines when writing a letter to your sponsored child:

• Keep letters simple using uncomplicated sentence structure.
• Print in clear, easy to read handwriting.
• Your message doesn’t have to be long.
• Even a short note shows that you care.
• “A picture tells a thousand words.” 

Some topics you might like to write about:

• Ask about their school.
• Ask what they like studying in school.
• Tell them about your school. (when you were a child, or if you are a student, your current school)
• Ask your child if they have siblings, or to tell you about their friends.
• Tell your child about your family, send photographs if you like.
• Encourage them in schoolwork.*
• Tell them you are thinking of them or praying for them.
• Ask them about their favorite game or sport.
• Tell them about the weather, particularly if you just shoveled out of a snowstorm, or it’s been raining for two days, you get the idea.
• Ask them about their favorite food.
• Tell them about your pets, kids love photographs.
• If your child is writing to your sponsored child, have them send drawings.
• Write about your home country (buildings, places, the culture…)
• Instead of writing a letter on a piece of paper, buy a card with bright colors or pretty pictures; often kids will hang cards on their walls as decoration.