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Eric Krewson:
He told me his wife had laid down the law about sending more money, he said the last time they called he told them he was out of cash to send.

bjrogg:
That looks really good and I don’t even really like squash all that much.

Bjrogg

WhistlingBadger:
I got to meet, via video call, the teenage girl that I sponsor in Nepal.  She's a nice girl, doesn't smile much.  The orphanage director said he's never seen her laugh.  Come to find out, she can't live at the orphanage or even go to school because she still has two little sisters in her village who don't have sponsors (and the guy who runs the orphanage can't afford to just take them in on his own dime), so she has to go back and be mom to them, along with taking care of her dad, who drinks a lot and is mentally not all there.  My sponsorship money keeps her (and probably her sisters) fed and clothed, but she won't leave her little sisters.  So it isn't enough.

Fifteen year old kid.  It makes me sad, and kind of angry.  I feel the old Badger stubbornness kicking in.  I am going to find a way to get those kids supported and living in a safe place...and get Pratiksha in a spot where she's able to go back to school.

Anybody want to help?  PM me.  Those of you who are believers, keep this kid in your prayers.  Everybody's struggling for money these days.  But man.  That ain't right.

JW_Halverson:
Thomas, when I was in my early 20's three of us young bachelors with zero prospects for starting our own families sponsored a boy in Haiti. The three of us were able to get him covered through high school and found a sponsor to help cover him when he got scholarships to a college in Florida. He eventually got his medical degree and moved back to Haiti and went to work in his home area as a doctor. Somewhere in college we told him that we didn't need to be thanked anymore, he didn't need to write any more Christmas letters, and that he could turn his eyes fully on the future where he was truly needed.

What you are doing is great and I know exactly what wild spectrum of feelings you can go through helping remotely. Let me see what I can do.

WhistlingBadger:
Thanks, JW.  That means a lot.  What part of Haiti is your friend from?  We used to work with an orphanage in Cap Haitian.  Wonderful people down there.

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