Hello! My name is Elios Mukollari. I am 9 years old and my birthday is on March 31st. I am doing well and enjoy good health. My favorite color is red and my future dream is to be a soccer player. I frequent third grade primary school where I spend the first part of the day learning and having fellowship with my classmates. I enjoy learning and I also enjoy to spend time to play football with my friends at school for a while. before I walk back to the house. After lunch, I go again outside to play with my friends who live near my house as we gather in small groups. During the winter we stay only for a short time outside because we have cold winters. After I finish studying and preparing for the next day of school, I usually spend time to play with my toys in the house and I also watch to follow programs for children on television. I like to go together with my mother when she goes to shop groceries and during the weekends, when the weather is nice, we take a walk in the morning. I enjoy waking by the lake and getting fresh air.

My family and I live in the town of Pogradec. I have one brother and one sister who are both matured. My sister is graduated from the university, after studying Business Management. She is now living in Tirana and is married. My brother is trying to work and help our family financially together with my father. My father emigrates in Greece and there he is hired to work as shepherd. He lives in Greece for three months and works shepherding the flock to provide for our family. When he is here, he tries to do different jobs as offered in daily or weekly bases, but he does not work much and the only secure financial source remains what he is able to bring through emigration. My mother is jobless. There are very less job opportunities for ladies and they get paid too low. My mother is staying in the house and she does housekeeping, cleaning, shopping, pays the bills for us and many other things, so her day is quite busy. Our family has low income needed for our living and I am thankful to the program for the food packages that I receive  while I follow the Bible classes of the church and the other activities of the program that we have during the year. Thank you for the spiritual and physical care that you offer to me and God bless you!

Translated by Martin Rucolli

LW/Adopt a Child Albania