Introducing....

Meet Gabriel!!  He is my new correspondent from Compassion!  Isn't he cute?

Gabriel is 6 and is in kindergarten, where he's doing average.  He helps his family by running errands and caring for his younger siblings.  In his spare time, he enjoys swimming, drawing, and bicycling!  His mom is sometimes employed as a freelancer, and his dad works for a non-government organization.

He lives in Indonesia, on the island of Java.  Gabriel likely speaks Javanese.  He attend IO745.

I am so excited to get to know this precious lil guy!! :)

Malaria

Halo! (Indonesian for "hello")  My name is Millie the mosquito.  I live in Indonesia, near Waingapu.  I am a young girl, so I am not very smart.  I learn something new everyday.  On Thursday, I learned the most important, life-changing thing-

My bite kills.

I didn't know that.  When I nibbled on the little girls and boys, I didn't know I was hurting them.  On Thursday, I saw many white nets hanging over the beds.  What were they?  I couldn't get past them.  So I listened in.

The little girl's name was Kartini.  She was in a bed with her sister Flora.  Flora didn't know what the net was either.  Kartini explained that mosquitoes, like me, carried a dangerous sickness.  It was called malaria.  Malaria makes people very ill, and sometimes they even die.  It made me very sad.

So I decided to snack on flowers now, and I hope that you other mosquitoes join me.  


For all you people (not mosquitoes), you can help too!  Six hundred, fifty-five thousand people died from malaria last year.  Many of them were children.  Many of them lived in Sub-Sahara Africa.  However, even in places like Indonesia, people are at risk.

Please help stop this!!  It is preventable.  You can visit Compassion's page on malaria for more info and ways to help.

Here's to eradicating malaria!

A Random Post of Bracelets and Links

Happy Saturday!

Kimmy posted on OurCompassion (you can view it HERE) that Wally would be going to Indonesia to visit his family's sponsored child.  Because kids are always around, he thought it would be nice to give them each a bracelet.  I am making some friendship bracelets, but you can make any type you want.  HERE is the link for more details.

Back in the spring, Compassion started their new topic for Compassion Sunday 2012.  It was Change the Story.  I made a page about how I changed the story.  Basically it is just a really short paragraph about how I became involved with Compassion.  You can read that HERE.

BTW, I joined OurCompassion, and you should too!  I have been able to find people who sponsor kids from the same centers I do, and I even saw a picture of Lucie's project!

HA146 Tova Child Development Center in Haiti

Have a great weekend and make some bracelets!

Change a life!

Lizzie :)