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How did you come about sponsoring children?

I have wanted to sponsor a child for as long as I can remember, but I knew I had to wait until I had a job and was financially able to make the payments. When I was 16 I happened to see a documentary on TV about a little boy in Kenya. I remember that the boy said that he wished for a book, any book, so that his days working in the field would not be so long. That was the day I sent the form away for a sponsored child, and specifically asked for a little boy from Kenya. Since then I have taken up four additional sponsorships, so I now have Kantet in Kenya, Gift in Malawi, Josephine in Uganda, Chahwa in Zimbabwe and Mejooli in Tanzania.


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