| Laho |
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| with his mother, Aan-Kumari |
| Since Laho and his family don't understand Engligh, and we don't understand Tharu, all our letters are translated by volunteers |
| Dear Mr and Mrs John and Erika Slivka, Namaste! With a lot of rememberance, your foster child Laho and his all family would like to express their hearty thanks for selecting him as your foster child... They are all fine over here till this letter writing. They hope that you are also fine over there. This is their first letter. They are happy to have the oppurtunity to welcome you through this letter. They hope the regular correspondence. Your foster child has admitted in the school near by his house. He is studying there in grade two. His study is good. He also likes to play the games. He likes football mostly. PLAN has implemented the different government projects such as handpump installation program, early childhood care development center, chicken raising program, school building construction program, uniform distribution, vegetable farming program and distribution of stationary materials. I (communiy volunteer) have written this letter on the behalf of them. |
| Dear Mr and Mrs John and Erika... Namaste! Your sponsored child Laho and his family are fine here and hope you are also fine there. Laho and his family become very happy to receive the letters, Yo-Yo game, ball pen...that you have sent and would like to thank you very much for that. I community volunteer have written this letter who works in the community. Laho enjoyed very much to know about your visit with your paternal uncle and aunt. Laho also became very happy with the explanation of the photograph. Laho would like to know if the tiger is real which is in the photograph.* At last, hoping for the continuity of the correspondence between you and them Laho would like to say good bye. |
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| * The tiger he is referring to is a stuffed toy, not a real tiger. Of course, after reading this, we dug up some old pics of us bottle-feeding REAL baby tigers at a sanctuary, and sent them to him along with a stuffed tiger. |
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| Laho became our sponsored child in the summer of 2001. He lives in Nepal and is 12 years old. He loves toy cars and football, and wants to be a teacher. His favorite subjects in school are reading, writing, and "sports lesson". |
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