Benia

Kolby and I started sponsoring a beautiful little 9 year-old girl in Uganda through Compassion International shortly after we were married. Her name is Benia. We have been VERY impressed with Compassion and were blown away when we received the following PICTURES of her in the mail this week! For such a huge organization, it's awesome that they make time to take recent pictures of the children to mail to sponsors.

The back of this picture reads: 'Birthday gift of a pig (with her mother)' And this one reads: 'A dress she bought from her Christmas gift'

I think she may be the most beautiful girl in the world.

In her letter she wrote about how she bought a pig to keep at home with the birthday money that we had sent her in June and that she bought a dress, shoes, and fish with the Christmas money we had sent. It's so cool to think that the meager $20 we sent her for each of those occasions meant so much to her and that if we would have kept that money for ourselves we would have probably wasted it on something meaningless. I can see why Compassion places restrictions on gift-giving to keep things fair between all the sponsored children. I would send her the entire contents of my bank account in a heartbeat.