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Do I have personal contact with my CUNINA foster child?
As a CUNINA foster parent, you are free to write as often as you want to your fosterchild. To avoid lost mail, you better send your letters to our local Cunina employee. This employee sends you a report twice a year with the latest actual news from the partner country and the region where your foster child lives as well as personal news about the foster child. You can expect this mail, together with a handwritten letter from your foster child, at the end of the academic year and in December, at the end of the calendar year. Besides these two guaranteed letters, your foster child is free to write you as often as he/she wants. Older foster children might be able to use a computer with internet at school, to send emails. This nevertheless depends from the region where they live. You always should bare in mind, however, that access to computers and internet in remote areas in Third World countries is not as evident as it is in the West. Also keep in mind that the younger children in our partner countries only speak little English or French. Most children in Haïti speak Creole, in Brasil Portuguese, while dozens of languages are spoken in Nepal… The letters from the foster children to the foster parents as well as the letters from the foster parents to the foster children are, if necessary, translated by the local cooperants. Letters are preferably written in English, except for Haïti, where our local empoyee is a native Dutch speaker. In case you aren’t much of a writer, don’t forget your foster child will be very pleased with a colourful postcard once in a while.
