ActionAid’s Child Messages §

• How to print missing {{Childnames}} and {{ChildID}} onto the CMs
  • Make an excel with

Childname	ChildID
Name1	KH06004950
Name2	KH06003942
…	…

• Word
  • Layout: page margin as Normal: 1 inch on each side
  • Mailings
    • Select recipient
      • Use an existing list
        • Select the excel sheet
    • Insert Merge Fields
      • Put Childname and ChildID on separate lines
  • Home
    • Font: Ariel
    • Font Size: 14
  • Layout
    • Page setup -> Top-Margin 0.8 inch
    • Indent-Left: 0.2 inch
  • Print: one side
  • Finish and merge once sure to check

Wordings §

• Sincerely, with love, warm wishes,
  • name of child should be on the bottom right of the page
• Bottom Left: (Translated by ____)
• There should be a title of each Child Message
• Title
  • First Message: Welcome to Cambodia
  • Standard & Goodbye:
    • Sending loves from Cambodia
    • Greetings from Cambodia
• Greeting phrase for each country
  • Italy: Dear ___
  • UK, Australia, Greece, Ireland: Dear sponsor
• Don’t(s)
  • Don’t mention something sensitive to sponsor
    • That brings trouble to the org
    • Actionaid is not about policing domestic issues
    • It goes both ways, from sponsor to child as well
      • Give child more advantage
  • No asking for more: actionaid isn’t a charity

Final Message §

• Don’t add any questions to sponsor, they will want to write back a correspondant

Paraphrasing §

• The COVID-19 situation in his area has vastly improved over this ___.

Templates §

Greetings dear sponsor. My name is Liya and it’s nice to meet you. To tell you a bit about myself. I like wearing blue pants and pink shirts which my mother buys for me. My favorite animal would have to be cows and buffalos because they are very tame and they help my family with hoeing our fields to get ready for planting. Other than cows and buffalos, we also raise other animals such as chickens, ducks, pigs, dogs, cats, and geese. On another note, every day, I like playing games like jumping rope with my friends on the down time. Lastly, I think my parents are those who love me the most.