Please advise!

… are you saying that regardless of how often I write my child, she might only get my letters once every 4 months?

No. The “letter day” in this post refers to a day set aside at this particular student center to write letters to sponsors.

This post is about the journey of a letter from the child to the sponsor.

Regardless of country or development center, children should write to their sponsors at least three times year. However, some countries /center strive to have their children write a response to every letter the child receives – “reciprocal” letter writing.

Your letters are delivered as you send them. The delivery can take months – writing online shortens that some – and sometimes letters written weeks apart – either by you or by the child – arrive on the same day, but the latter is not the norm.

Thanks in advance for any knowledgeable response on this.

If I am not wrong… honduras is not officially on the reciprocal letter system. The 10 countries that are on that system are: Thailand, Indonesia, Peru, Ecuador, Rwanda, Tanzania, Nicaragua, Kenya, Ethiopia and El Salvador! =)

I’m really hoping they are on the Reciprocal Letter System, because I’ve already started writing letters and have 3 ready to go to my new sponsor child.

And when I was working a Compassion table at a concert on 3/21, there was a former Compassion-sponsored child from Uganda. He said that all children in Uganda, when they are in school, learn English also.

I did call Compassion this morning; the representative said that each country office has translators who can translate children’s letters into French, Italian, German, Korean, as well as English (if I missed a language represented by a world office, I apologize). They may have one translator per language, or someone may know more than one language, but the Country Offices have enough translators to get the job done. I am so grateful for the amount of work Compassion does on behalf of the sponsors!

That’s a great question. I can tell you from Holland, because my parents sponsor children in Holland. They have translators that will translate from English to Dutch. Also, somehow you can opt to not have it translated because my dad is fluent in English, so he writes the child in English and reads the child’s letters. From what my dad tells me, the translators from English to Dutch and from Dutch to English are part of the advocate network there, but that could have been misunderstood.

Kees