Today someone did something absolutely amazing...I was about to say "for me", but that's not true. They did it for an eight-year-old girl who lives in the Dominican Republic, a very special little girl whose family happens to be very, very poor.
Daneisi is my sponsored child. She lives in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, with her parents and 6 brothers and sisters. The family lives on $150 a month, which isn't enough to allow Daneisi to attend a "regular" school. When I first began sponsoring her, she didn't attend school at all. As of her last update, in August, she was attending an informal school in a home in her neighborhood with about 50 other children.
When I inquired about what it would take, financially, to enroll Daneisi in a more formal school, CI came back with a figure of $280. I posted about this on LiftOne (www.liftone.org) on Monday, and today I received an email from CI telling me that...
An anonymous donor has donated $280 for Daneisi's education!
I cried when I read this email. I cried and I laughed and I jumped around a little and kind of squeaked, and I scared the cat. What an amazing, big-hearted, generous thing for someone to do! It had to be someone from LiftOne, an amazing website for sponsors. (I actually think I know who it was, but since they donated anonymously I will respect that and not blab about who I think it was, or ask them, or anything.)
So that is why I say, Gracias del fondo de mi corazón. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
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