Letter from Tesfa's Shelter: August 2024

Hello dear friends!

How are you doing? How is the month going? We hope you are having a blessed summer and enjoying the sun and the bright day.

The girls are enjoying the nail polish and they are using it frequently. Since it is summer they can have the nail polish whenever they want but when school start it is not allowed in the school. You know every Monday our teachers check our nail, hair and uniform when we enter the class.

In this letter we want to share the new experience we had this month. If you remember grandma we had a plan with our father to have a training on volunteering. Thanks to our father, our psychologist, kal and Mekdelawit that we are able to have the training.

Our father and our psychologist create a group based on our age. The reason they create the group is to give as a detail training based on our understanding. And as you know group discussion and group training give us more time to understand the topic and to ask questions reputedly.

Even though the training topic and the sessions are similar for every group, the examples and the why the session was given for us was very different from group to group. And these different ways was very excellent for all of us because they give as a different way to relate with our life and internalize the points. During our free time children from different group share the examples they were using during the training and we can have a discussion on the points.

The training was on the volunteering. We start from the definition of the word volunteering and volunteer. The historical background of volunteering according to age categories and from all over the world. The aim of volunteering, objective of volunteering, and goal of volunteering. In every topic we were able to share our point of view before the training. The difference type of volunteering and the value of every type.

We were learning a lot from our training because everything was related with our life. We are out of the street because our father who is a volunteer and never hesitate to support and give us everything he have. Our life is improve in everything aspect because of you grand ma who is also a volunteer and your friends are also volunteers. We having everything in our life because of a volunteers, for example we are celebrating our birthday, we have a lot of books, we have food, we have shelter, we have psychologist, we have a mother, we have everything through voluntarism.

One thing we were realizing from the whole training and discussion is that everybody around as doing a lot without expecting anything form us but only to help us to achieve in life and become a better person so that we are able to pay back by doing the same thing for others who need our help. It is not about money or other expensive thing it is just being kind for others and giving time, leasing and sharing. We learn this thing and we promise for our self to be a volunteer.  We all agreed on becoming a volunteer before everything because we are a living example of what volunteering works. It is all about giving back and being a better person. We are a fruits of volunteering and we are proud of that too.

We hope you enjoy our letter. We love you all and have a wonderful month.