After months of planning and hard work, the children of Esther’s Hope received their package from Sweden. Two 18-year-old students who live just outside Stockholm, Sweden – Caroline Broliden and Linda Klaesson – gathered needed items from their community as part of a school project.

The most difficult part of the project was delivering the goods. Getting a package to Monrovia, Liberia, through customs and into the hands of the intended recipient is no easy feat, not to mention expensive. The package was sent a couple of weeks ago. Last week when I spoke to Pastor Andrew by phone, he excitedly informed me that he had received it. He promised to send photos. When his email arrived, it included photos and an image of a scanned page of thanks, hand written by the children.

Here’s Pastor Andrew’s message…

Inside the Box

Dear Rev. Pevlor,

Praise the Lord that I finally received the love gift that was sent by those two sisters, Caroline and Linda.

Please note Sir that the gifts were warmly welcomed and appreciated by the Kids. The scripture states that little is much when God is in it.

We never saw these gifts as a School project, but deeper than that. The Kids were touched by the love expressed through those items. One of them was concerned that if some one could dare send you a sizy Catton of not much items from all the way Europe indicates genuine love expressed in action which is Christ’ desire for humanity.

Caroline and Linda, as I mentioned your encouraging note to the Kids – they in turn decided to reply their love through few of those words attached to this note. And each of them wrote those words themselves I was not there to supervise them in doing it neatly or not, that is why you can see the copy as raw as it is. They also thumb printed their note; each expressing what they feel about your action.

Children with some of the items.

Here are the contents Received:

* Clothes: – 52pices

* Sheets: – 13 pieces

* Towels: – 7 pieces

* Notepad: – 35 pieces

* Toys: – 7 pieces.

God bless you Sir; we will stay in touch, as I am compiling a brief report regarding the monthly support.

Pastor Andrew

The Children Write Thanks (Click this image to see all of the children's comments.)

A day later Caroline and Linda sent a response to Pastor Andrews message and photos.

Caroline and Linda

We are happy to hear that the items sent were appreciated! We know it’s not much, but it was harder than we imagined to send this box to you. It was easy to collect the items with the help of peoples generosity. However, it’s not easy to send a box of items all the way to Liberia without the help of a larger and established organization. We did our best and hope that what we did will inspire more people to help.

We are very grateful for the pictures and letters from the children!

The next step of our project is to write an essay about our primary problem, how hard it was to help children in an other part of the world without working for an international organization. It’s easy to donate money and clothes but it is harder to do more than that without working for the organization. We will also compare different organizations and how they work.

Linda and Caroline

If you have a project in mind to help the children of Esther’s Hope, you can Contact us through this website. Monetary donations can easily be made using your credit/debit card by clicking on the Donate button.

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