A quick update on our sponsored girls

Hiwot and Saron - two of our sponsored girls

Just a little post to thank you  for your support of The Sparkle Project! We are thrilled to be able to give you a quick update and let you know that through your generosity and purchase of a t-shirt (or many shirts in some cases), you have truly impacted the life of a young girl in Ethiopia, Africa. We recently received word from our partner organization, Eyes That See, that the girls we are sponsoring this year are doing well and growing physically, educationally, and emotionally.

What an honor it is to be able to watch the progress of these amazing girls. If you would like specific information about the girl you helped to sponsor through our project, please feel free to email us. We want to protect the story of each girl, but would love to share some of their struggles with you if you are interested in praying for their specific needs. Most of the girls are living with very challenging situations (abuse, lack of food, etc.), yet we have learned that these girls value their education so much that they are working hard to overcome these challenges. In fact, One of our sponsored girls (Kalkidan) has been working so hard that she is currently "second in her class" (it is common for our Ethiopian partners to report class rank when describing the status of children...education is so important to them!).

We're so grateful for your help with our first Sparkle project fundraiser. We look forward to many more projects, and will keep you up to date on future opportunities in which you might want to participate. We are working on a facebook page as well, and will let you know when we are set to add "friends." Please let us know if you have projects you are working on that we can support and share with others. Our ongoing goal is to provide girls and women in the U.S. opportunities to do community service projects that will serve girls and women in other parts of the world as well as their own communities.

With many thanks,
Deena and Alyssa