January 24, 2024 | Child Sponsorship

From letters to reality

Unbound sponsor and staff member meets sponsored friend in Rwanda

One sponsorship has the power to change multiple lives.

Not only does it empower someone who lives in poverty to reach their full potential, it directly impacts their entire family and even has the power to change the sponsor’s life.

Unbound sponsor Danika Wolf experienced firsthand the full impact of sponsorship support.

Wolf is also an Unbound multimedia producer/editor, based at the organization’s global headquarters in Kansas City. She has been sponsoring an 8-year-old girl in Rwanda for four years and a 7-year-old boy in Honduras for five years.

In 2023, she had the chance to travel to Rwanda to meet her sponsored friend, Ange, whose life she had come to know about through letters with the young girl and her family. What she witnessed while she was there forever changed the way she viewed sponsorship and the world going forward.

See Danika and Ange meet for the first time in “From Letters to Reality,” the next video in Unbound’s “See You On the Road” series.

Sponsorship is helping me see the world differently. It’s opened my eyes to see that this is more than just sending a monthly donation and a few letters a year.

— Danika Wolf, Unbound sponsor and staff member


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