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By Maria Catterick
01/02/06
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My name is Grace and I am 7 years old. I am small for my age. I came to live at house number 6 three years ago. I was found in a village a few miles from here. I was starving and could not move. I had been left behind when bad army men had destroyed our village. Someone with a Red Cross on their arm found me. I don’t know who they were. Don’t you think it was so kind of them to come and look for me, so I didn’t die? We don’t know what happened to my family. We don’t even know my real name. Someone here said I was full of grace so that was how I got my name. I like it but sometimes wonder what my parents named me. They weren’t sure whether I would live but they took good care of me and I got stronger each day. There was a kind lady who looked after me. She didn’t speak my language and didn’t look like me but I knew she loved me. She would sit in the chair next to my bed, hold me on her knee, and sing to me. She stroked my hair and gave me hugs and kisses. She made me feel safe. She stopped me feeling scared and all alone. She gave me a rag doll of my very own too. One day she left. She was a volunteer someone said. She could only stay a few months. I hope she is ok. I wonder if I will see her again one day?

When I grew healthy, I was moved into house number 6. I live here with 30 other children. None of us have families. I have lots of friends and we play together and have fun. I am happy, as I am never hungry any more. My belly is not so big now. I used to worry in case they ran out of food but I get rice every day. I smile lots because I know I am lucky. I get to go to school for 3 hours a day and my teacher tells me I am a good learner. I don’t know whether my family were good learners but my teacher says if my parents could see me now they would be proud of me.

One day I hope to work in this orphanage. Some of the big children say they can’t wait to escape here when they are big. But I hear stories about other children who get hurt and starve to death. I want to rescue them just like I was rescued. I know how afraid they are. They think no one will love them because they are not in a real family.

I hope you can read my writing. I am glad you have decided to sponsor me. You are giving me a happy future and I will be able to bring happiness to other children. I hope that I make you feel proud of me. Please tell your friends to do child sponsorship too so that other children in my orphanage will feel safe and loved just like me.

Love from your special girl, Grace.

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