Rwanda: “I find myself with something little, but mine.”

Letter Quotes: Rwanda

“My dear sponsor, I greet you in the name of almighty God. I don’t know how to say this, I am very grateful to you and I have nothing to say other than asking almighty to bless you endlessly. You got me out of misery. I was very poor and I thought that I was the poorest being on earth. But now I am getting fine and well off. Now I sell fruits and I thank very much and I think that only the Almighty God can compensate for your goodwill, no one else. Now I am not the way I used to be, because nowadays at the end of the day, I find myself with something little, but mine. “~Therez

“I write this letter to thank you for your support that improved my life from poverty and loneliness. I sell many things including clothes. Whenever I needed soap, salt and other domestic requirements, I used to wait for my husband to buy them for me. But now I have been independent, being able to get what I needed without waiting for him to buy it for me.  I can’t stop appreciating your support that leads me to this good life, thank you….  You are always in my heart. Bye bye.” ~Gaudence

 ”I was excited to receive your letter talking about your good life. I was also pleased with your picture that included you, your husband and your beautiful very beautiful sweet baby. This showed me that you received my letter…. You told me how you traveled in your country and even beyond your borders! This made me happy! But for me I have never traveled beyond our borders. I just went to our capital city of our country Rwanda, the capital Kigali. So I enclose our picture and the one you see in a colored shirt is our neighbor who wanted to be with us in the picture. Let me close here.  Until next time I wish you peace and luck forever.” ~ Patricia

“Dear Wendi, I am please writing to you informing you that the support you send me was of great help. Thank you very much. It improved my condition of living, I will never forget you. I am married and have a son two years and four months. I live in Kigali city, District of Gasabo. I am not sure of you being a man or a woman because of your names (Please bear with me it looks strange).” ~Joseline

“My family is very happy because they have seen that I am producing something very important and I have also come to realize that I can do something very important and useful to me and my family which can help us to a better life.” ~ Xaveline

DRC: “[I have] become a real woman contrary to what I was in the past”

Dear Terry,

Hello! How are you doing?

I wish you a good and long life full of peace, success, and job. May God bless you endlessly for your tenderness and commitment to help me improving my living conditions. Thanks to your financial support, my children are well dressed, well fed, and one of them is attending school. Though the WWI program us over I am sure that the lessons that I have learned will help me strengthen my income generating activities. In fact, as I have become a petty trader, I will apply the business techniques that I learned in the WWI program.

Many thanks to you!

Yours Truly, Chantal

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Dearest friend Katie,

Receive warmest greetings from you friend.

The very recent news over here is that of the earthquake that occurred here. As for my training, from the program, I am learning basic business skills because I though these skills I [learn] will help me better my situation and that of my family.

The training will be over in March, I hope that even after the graduating I will be conducting on petty trade to increase my economic level. The training I have received has helped [me] become a real woman contrary to what I was in the past; before I joined the program.

I would like to end this letter by wishing you long life. May God protect you and give you long life.

Yours, Aimerance

Kosova: “We lost almost everything we had”

Hello! Greeting! I am pleased to write you this letter. I would like to thank you very much for your support and making it possible for me to join this wonderful program.

We had good life conditions before the war but we weren’t safe in that time. My family and I have passed through hard moments during the war. We were forced to leave our home in that time. We have stayed in the mountains for a few days and there we had terrible life conditions. Unfortunately a lot of people were killed during the war. Our house was burned too so we lost almost everything we had. Thank God the NATO troops liberated our country and we live in peace today.

America and other foreign states have helped and supported us get our independence too. So now Kosova is the newest state of the world…You and your family are always in my thoughts and prayers. I am looking forward to receiving a letter from you and to get to know more about you.

Respectfully, your sister, Tahirja

Nigeria: “The teachings are very helpful to me”

Dear Sister,

…Since Women for Women International came into existence here, my experiences so far have helped me a lot. I use Monday to Wednesday to do my farming activities, while Thursday of every week is whole dedicated to Women for Women activities and also, Friday and Saturday are used for my farm, while Sunday is my rest day. Moreover, Women for Women activities have certainly shaped my way of doing things. For instance, the way they teach us how to take care of our families properly and combine it with our farming activities has actually helped me to manage my home effectively.

Furthermore, I would like to beg that this program be sustained here because the teachings are very helpful to me….

Rwanda: “Without your support, my life would be useless!”

Following are two letters from Eugenie in Rwanda:

My dear Sponsor Sister,

I greet you with much love and I wish you a prosperous New Year. I hope that all goes well with you and that the lord is blessing you today. I never enjoyed Christmas holidays because I was sick in bed, but I am getting better now. I am on HIV/AIDS medication and I have to eat proper meals and have enough rest. I sell small things in the market and the little money I get helps me to buy food for my children…I would be dead by now if I did not have someone like you who cares for me. I hope that we are able to continue with our friendship. Without your support, my life would be useless! May God shower blessing upon you and your dear ones!

Love, Eugenie

To My Sponsor Sandra,

I am glad to get this opportunity and converse with you again. The whole twelve months we spent together I shan’t forget you because I have many remembrance things at home. The main one is that I became civilized. I got ways of living well depending on myself. I have developed mentally, thoughtfully and in planning of everything. I’m able to develop my family and country in general. Briefly I got out [of] poverty and loneliness. I know much tactics to make money. We end this year and I really appreciate. Now I have an account and I’ll keep saving money because I want to develop my family. Greetings from my family…. I end by thanking you and wishing you peace from God.

Thank you!

Sudan: “I love being called your sister”

Dear Jacacanda,

I am actually blessed to have you as a sister. I really enjoy your letter. Thanks for your soothing letter.

Our program here in the Sudan is very educative. We are learning basic skills such [as] entrepreneurship and marketing skills. We really gain from [these] training sessions.

I must also tell you that, I am glad because you have helped me both financially and socially. I love being called your sister.

I will keep you in my prayers and please do know that you letters are important in my life. Have nice time and prosperous year!

With Love, Deborah Yar Sut