Kati - Save the Children

Kati - Age 4

On December 1, 2010, I finished reading "What Is The What" by Dave Eggers, and it changed my life. War, starvation, poverty, illness... through the eyes of a child; horrors that no one, not even an adult, and especially not a young person, should ever have to live through. I decided that although I often find myself living check to check (as do most people in our current economy) I could easily save extra money every month to aid a child in need. 

That's when I met Kati.

Save The Children -
El Salvador

As soon as I saw her face on the Save the Children website, my mission became clear. I began sponsoring her immediately. I am proud to be apart of her life, and I hope every day that she will grow up with the desire to be all that she can - and the skills to make her dreams come true, despite all hardships she faces daily.

Kati is 4 years old, and she lives in Sonsonate, El Salvador (South America). She is very friendly and enjoys sports. She hasn't started school yet. The poverty conditions in her community are extreme, and I am grateful to be able to help in any way that I can. My monthly contributions are $28, and I have the opportunity to send extra gifts if I choose to do so. I look forward to developing a friendship with her that will last a lifetime.      

Click here to be directed to "What Is The What" on Amazon. [From Publishers Weekly] Starred Review. Valentino Achak Deng, real-life hero of this engrossing epic, was a refugee from the Sudanese civil war-the bloodbath before the current Darfur bloodbath-of the 1980s and 90s. In this fictionalized memoir, Eggers (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius) makes him an icon of globalization. Separated from his family when Arab militia destroy his village, Valentino joins thousands of other "Lost Boys," beset by starvation, thirst and man-eating lions on their march to squalid refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya, where Valentino pieces together a new life. He eventually reaches America, but finds his quest for safety, community and fulfillment in many ways even more difficult there than in the camps: he recalls, for instance, being robbed, beaten and held captive in his Atlanta apartment. Eggers's limpid prose gives Valentino an unaffected, compelling voice and makes his narrative by turns harrowing, funny, bleak and lyrical. The result is a horrific account of the Sudanese tragedy, but also an emblematic saga of modernity-of the search for home and self in a world of unending upheaval. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.