I sponsor SOS Children's Village in South Africa. It is an organisation which "groups" of orphaned children into family units and places them in a house with a "house mother" so the kids get to grow up in a family unit and not an institution. It's a great idea, and every Christmas we get thank-you letters and Christmas Cards from some of the kiddies. I also sponsor "Little Eden" which a home for severely mentally handicapped children in my home town in SA. When we left SA 6 years ago we made arrangements to keep our bank account open to pay these two debits every month.

I do support and volunteer at our animal shelter here, but Sponsoring an animal is a GREAT idea. I think we will look into sponsoring an animal in SA when we go back in December.

(((HUGS)))) to all of you for being such caring giving people!