My Story

Hello! I am Raiden. Thank you very much for reading about me. I am doing well regarding health. I am 3 years old and my birthday is in July. My favorite color is gray. The car toys I like the most to ask my father to buy for me are usually in gray or black. My future dream is to learn English well so that in the future I can become a teacher of English in our schools. I go to kindergarten where I spend the first part of my day. My brother and sister go to primary school and the kindergarten is near, so every morning, we walk to get to school and usually our mother comes along to bring us there so we feel safe. I like to play outside. When the weather is nice and dry, I still get my bicycle and ride it in front of my house. My brother and sister are older. My brother and I spend time playing together outside. Our favorite games are kicking the ball, riding bicycles and doing run races. My sister is the oldest child in our family. We play together with her especially when we are inside the house and after she and my brother study the books and finish their homework. When they study, I stay silent and usually like to color the drawings that my mother does for me. I like to learn how to paint myself and I am slowly learning at kindergarten. After the lessons, my friends and I spend a lot of time playing and I have made friends from my classmates. I live in a village near the town of Prrenjas. Very rarely, during weekends we go to visit the town next to our village. Mainly we go there for shopping, but as we are there, we enjoy a day outside the house. Seeing the town and spending time as family away from the village is very special for us.  I have five members in my family, and our house offers appropriated living conditions. All the people who live in the village are considered as self employed because they own land and deal with agriculture. We have land, but my family has not planted a whole lot in it. My mother has only planted a small vegetable garden close to our house and this way we have provision of vegetables to consume daily. My father has a car and works as taxi. He offers transportation to the people from the village to go to the town and some times he offers transportations for even longer distances. He earns a bit of income and provides some of the needs of our family, but still we are financially challenged. The day of my mother is as well busy while she deals with cooking, cleaning, shopping, gardening, carrying for us etc. I frequent the church of the program in the village together with my sister and brother and they are also in the program. We receive food packages constantly as well as spiritual care. We enjoy going to the Bible classes of the church. Thank you for your support and care. God bless you!

Translated by Martin Rucolli

LW/Adopt a Child Albania