Thank You Note

We’re leaving Swakop with lighter luggage; we’ve now distributed all the goods we collected and brought for various schools in the area. But I’m excited to say that even though we’ve given away all the gifts we brought, we’re not leaving empty-handed. I have the collected thank you letters written by students from both Hanganeni Primary (the site of our windy Monday morning concert) and Mondessa Youth Opportunities (the after-school program where our own Lex Hillyard is working this year). Hanganeni staff gratefully accepted our gifts of the school kits assembled by Wendy Gibb, as well as a rather overwhelmingly large donation of sweets for the schoolchildren, given out of the kindness of one chaperone’s amazingly generous and loving heart! MYO (Lex’s program) were the recipients of a number of books collected by Kim and Lloyd Chung (Oran members holding down the fort back in Canada). Lex said her students were completely thrilled by the books. Some of them attended our Swakop evening concert courtesy of Lex while others saw us perform at Hanganeni during their regular school day. Lex reports that her class is still abuzz about the concerts and the books!

I thought I would share a handful of the dozens of letters we received. Typing them up doesn’t really do justice to the drawings and creative spelling and the immensely colourful look of the Hanganeni letters (where the students made good use of the coloured pencils we gave them!), but we’ve all enjoyed reading these sincere, sweet, and often entertaining letters so we’d like everyone to have a sample:

Swakopmund
PO Box 1716
Namibia
9 July 2007

Dear Kokopelli, Kim and Lloyd

My name is Helao. I am 12 years old. My hobbies are singing, dancing, and playing tennis. MYO is very important for me because it helps children that don’t have food, love, care and shelter. MYO is helping a lot of kids and I just don’t know how to thank MYO.

Thank you very much Kokopelli Choir for sponsoring us with amazing things. I just don’t no how to thank you. I really enjoyed your show it was amazing. What I learned from your show is that if you have the potential to sing you have to go out there and do it. Thank you very much. May God bless. Have a pleasant year.

Yours truly

Helao

We will share more of these once we get back home!


Lex teaching her class at MYO