Offering of Letters Video

For the past four years, Caherine Phiri, 13, she has lived in Kampansoma, a village about 30 miles outside Zambia's capital, Lusaka. Catherine, her sister and two brothers, came to live with their grandmother after both of their parents died as a result of AIDS. Theirs is a generation of orphans. More than 700,000 children in Zambia have been orphaned because of AIDS.

In many ways, Catherine's life tells the story of development in Zambia, both the progress that has been made and the challenges that still persist. Bread for the World's 2008 Offering of Letters calls for more and better development assistance to countries like Zambia. Because these places are so far away from our own families and communities in the United States, it's easy to lose sight of who is actually helped by that assistance. In Catherine's case, it's a girl whose dreams tend toward the practical rather than the fantastic.

Watch this short video and you'll understand exactly how your efforts, and the work of Bread for the World, can make a difference in the lives of children like Catherine.

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