Share your story!
Grab your cameras and show everyone what you've been up to with the Rice Bag Project!
Click on the photo to read a letter from a Sonlight family living in India!Email your photos, along with any stories, quotes, or ideas, to sonlight@missionindia.org. We'll post these on our website each week and give you a chance to tell other Sonlight families what you're doing.
Kids, we want to hear from you too! Tell us what you've learned so far or share your prayer for the women and families of India. How has the Rice Bag Project helped touch your heart? Include your first name and age, and if you'd like, your state or country.
(By sharing your stories and photos you give Mission India permission to publish this information on our website and/or in other print materials.)
Here's what Sonlighters have been telling us:
Sue in Michigan says:
Our family has had a great time raising money for Mission India. We put our pocket change into the rice bag at the end of every day and my daughters [Addy, 6, and Dori, 2] have asked family members if they have pocket change to spare.
Addy, 6, and Dori, 2, picked tomatoes in their mother's garden to help earn extra coins for their Rice Bags!
The girls found two ways to earn additional coins. We are remodeling a farmhouse for our family to live in and there were bottles around the property. We let the girls save the bottles and turn them into dimes to put in the rice bag.
Another day we were cleaning up the garden and I wasn’t looking forward to picking up all the old tomatoes from the ground to put into our compost bin. I offered our girls one penny for each tomato they cleaned up. They were proud to report their progress and earn some more money for the rice bag.
Six-year-old Addy (pictured at right with sister Dori) says:
We collect money and put it in a little rice bag and send it to somewhere so it can be turned into India money. Women and girls in India can't go to school so we are putting our spare money into the bag to send to Mission India.
Christina sent us this email on October 25:
Today is my daughter's 6th birthday. [Gracie, pictured below] is an avid (and by 'avid', I mean if it holds still long enough, she will read it!) reader. When we received the information about the Mission India/ Sonlight literacy program, she was flabbergasted as to how someone would not be able to read. The video reduced her to tears!
At her urging, we sent the 'Mission India Rice Bags' to her friends to fill with change in lieu of traditional gifts. Everyone was delighted to comply.
The party ended a few hours ago and we tallied the gifts: $82 in change - including over 1,000 pennies! She is so excited to send this money to you for your continued good work.
May God bless you all.
Share your thoughts and get ideas from other families at the Sonlight Rice Bag Project forum!
Gracie, 6, counts the coins that she and her friends saved to teach women in India how to write.
