My Story

Hello! My name is Armela. I am 14 years old and my birthday is on August. I am doing well and my health is good. My favorite color is pink and my future dream is to study and become advocate or lawyer. My hobbies are sports and I love playing volleyball while I meet with my friends and I also like arts. I like painting and listening to music. I started to attend the ninth grade of school and am doing my best studying so I can accomplish my future dreams and desires. The subject I like to study best at school is English. I like to learn this language because it is so helpful for communication. Besides learning, I spend a wonderful time at school with my classmates and friends. After the lessons we play volleyball at the sport field of our school.  My friends and I walk to school and back, so while walking, we have lots of fun and nice conversations. I return in the house at midday and spend time inside the house with my younger brother. We spend a while playing together or watching programs for children on television. Sometimes, we use the mobile phone of my mother to check reals in different social networks. After spending time playing, we sit to study and prepare for the next school day. I help him with his homework and our mother helps us both. My brother and I try our best to help our mother and grandparents during the day. We do what they ask us to do for them, small things like cleaning, shopping, wash dishes and make order in our room. I live in the town of Pogradec. This town is beautiful and we have walks by the lake almost every evening. My family consists of my mother, brother and me. Our father died from cancer seven years before. My mother decided to return and live with her parents (our grandparents) and we have a room of ours in their house. The local government gave the opportunity to my mother to work for a full year as cleaning lady in a kindergarten of the community, so that she could have some income provided to feed us. The government gives my brother and me a symbolic amount considered as help to orphans. My mother is trying to find a job so that she can cover our living expenses, since at present we are spending out of what our grandparents have available. Being in this financial conditions, we heard that Adopt a Child program gives help to children and we started following the Bible classes and the church services. We are happy to hear about faith in God and we are expecting to receive food packages constantly from the program. Thank you for your generosity and care. God bless you in return.

Translated by Martin Rucolli

LW/Adopt a Child Albania