Letter from Tesfa's Shelter: April 2024

Hello dear beloved friends!

How are you all doing? How was the month of spring? Did you and your family enjoyed it? Our grandmother Shelley told us in her letter that spring is a beginning of life and you enjoyed it very well.

When our father read us Patti’s letter we were so amazed that she was so slow reader and didn’t enjoy reading at first but she didn’t give up she continue reading now she write a book of her own, that is really amazing and we were all saying “wow she is so brave and good example for all of us”. We are all proud of you our Patti.

We want to write you about second chances in our letter. We selected this topic because we all are a living example of second chances in life. When we see our life we clearly see God has given us a second chance from all of the children we know in our previous life. We were somewhere that no one was there to consider us as a human, we didn’t have nothing to eat, to drink, to sleep, to cover our body, to play with, to go to and most of all we didn’t have someone to tell what we are feeling or need. That was the darkest place any one can be. We suffer a lot in our life, most of us didn’t have a family we don’t know where we come from, other of us has a family but our birth mother didn’t want us through a lot of reasons. We cannot express how hard it was to spend a day with fear, anxiety, hunger and sickness. We all don’t have a future in that area and we cried a lot.

But when God see us he bring Tesfa to our life. Tesfa is a miracle in all of our lives. He is sent from God for all of us. When he meet us for the first time he didn’t discriminate us, did you know what he did? He hugged us, he kissed us and he give us a true love and respect. He talked to us like a human and we were so amazed by his kindness because no one consider us like human before. It was the first impression for us that put in our face a smile and joy. Then he bring us to our home/our shelter. Imagine how happy, how amazing that feels. Then we get food, clothing, bed, medication, family love, care and we get to school.

Through Tesfa we get our grandma Shelley, she is the most loving and kind person we ever see or meet. We are so blessed to have her in our life. Through her we meet you all our beloved friends and Hearts for Ethiopia organization to support us and to make our life easy.

We believe in second chances. God has given us a second chance to have a family that care, love and think about us. We are so blessed and lucky.

We promise to God to use our second chance wisely and to work in our school for our future. We hope you enjoyed our letter and please share with us if you have a second chance story that you would love to tell us. Stay safe and as always we love you.