**ANNA REQUIRES BOTH REGULAR AND MEDICAL SPONSORSHIP**
Dear Sponsor,
This letter is written by the caseworker together with Anna’s mother, as Anna has significant speech difficulties and cannot yet write or fully express her thoughts. We would love to help you get to know her.
Anna is seven years old and still attends kindergarten because of developmental and speech delays. She is a sweet, sincere girl who finds joy in simple things and loves being around people. She has friends at kindergarten, Sasha and Solomiia, and she also enjoys spending time with a neighbor boy named Mykhailo.
At home, Anna loves helping her mother by washing dishes and sweeping the floors. She especially enjoys playing outside, and being around dogs brings her pure happiness.
Her favorite holiday is Christmas. She loves decorating the tree with her brothers and cherishes the warmth of sitting together, drinking tea, and enjoying sweet treats. Anna adores sweets, especially when her mom bakes cakes. Eating them with hot cocoa feels like a celebration. She also loves homemade pizza.
Despite her speech challenges, Anna expresses joy and affection easily. Her smile, her warmth, and her gentle nature make her truly special.
Thank you for your kindness and support. Because of you, Anna’s life is filled with more joy, warmth, and hope.
Caseworker Comments:
Meet Anna, a gentle little girl who finds joy in creating things with her hands. Arts and crafts make her happy, but her favorite activity of all is shaping all sorts of things with modeling clay. She is sincere, affectionate, and deeply loving toward her mother and siblings. But behind her sweetness is a childhood marked by hardship and struggle.
At just seven years old, Anna is already facing serious health concerns. She often complains about her heart, and doctors have recommended that she be examined by a pediatric psychiatrist. Her development is significantly delayed. She does not speak, only shouts syllables, and despite her age, she still attends an inclusive kindergarten. She may not be able to start school next year because of her delays. The family has no medical documents yet, leaving her without the evaluations she urgently needs.
Anna’s family is living in extremely difficult circumstances and urgently needs support from HART’s Child Sponsorship Program. Her mother is raising four children alone after a painful divorce. She survives irregular, unofficial cleaning jobs at a local store, which provide no stability and barely cover the most basic needs. The children often go without essentials.
The strain of poverty shows in every part of their lives. The mother struggles to meet parental responsibilities, often overwhelmed by unstable relationships, poor household management, and the inability to ensure the children attend developmental sessions. Their diet is monotonous, with almost no access to fruit or fish. The children desperately need their mother’s attention to learn appropriate skills, develop emotionally, and feel loved and secure. Anna especially needs consistent developmental support, structure, and nurturing guidance.
Several of the children have diagnosed developmental disorders, including cognitive and speech delays. One of the boys already has medical documentation confirming his condition. For Anna, the mother is still trying to obtain the necessary paperwork. Her speech is almost entirely incoherent, making communication extremely difficult. The other children also struggle academically, partly due to developmental challenges and partly because they lack the support they need at home.
Their living conditions are heartbreaking. The rented house is in a severely neglected state, with overwhelming clutter and poor hygiene. The sleeping areas are appalling: the beds, mattresses, and bedding are worn out, dirty, and urgently need replacing. The children do not have a clean, safe place to rest. Their clothing is unkempt, reflecting the family’s daily struggle to cope.
The home has no running water or gas. Every drop of water must be carried in by hand and heated just to cook or wash. Meals are prepared on an old, barely functioning stove and heater. The rooms are dirty, the space is cluttered, and the house is in a state of deep disrepair. The walls, ceilings, and floors are damaged, and the furniture is old and falling apart. A foul smell hangs in the air. The environment is cramped, messy, and far below any basic standard of safe living for children.
This family needs more than financial help. They need emotional support, guidance, and stability. They need someone to stand beside them as they try to rebuild their lives. Anna and her siblings need proper nutrition, clean clothing, safe sleeping conditions, developmental tools, and the warmth of consistent care.
Their participation in the Child Sponsorship Program is not just helpful — it is critical. Sponsorship would provide the essentials they cannot afford, improve their living conditions, and give the children the chance to grow, learn, and feel safe. Most importantly, it would bring hope into a home that has known far too much hardship.
Supporting Anna means giving a vulnerable little girl the chance to be seen, heard, and cared for — and giving her family the lifeline they so desperately need.
