Audia and Wikipedia
In today’s mail I received a picture of an adorable little three-year-old girl wearing a blue and white uniform. Her name is Audia, and she is a student at Maranatha School for the Deaf in Jamaica. Since she just started attending the school within the past few weeks, I don’t know much else about her family or her disability, but I do know that I am now officially sponsoring a child.
I had run into the sponsorship coordinator a few weeks ago, and when I told her that I wanted to sponsor a child at the school, she asked if I wanted to go along to Jamaica with her… leaving just a few days from now! I declined because I already have other commitments for that time, but perhaps the next plane ticket I buy will be to Kingston. After all, it’s been almost ten years since my last visit to Jamaica and almost five years since I’ve been out of the States. That’s a trend I need to reverse!
I’m not sponsoring Audia merely so I could check off one more thing on my 101-in-1001 list. Quite the contrary, in fact. I listed “sponsor a child” because it’s something I already wanted to do… like everything else on the list.
Today was an especially good day for the list, because I also completed number 51: “Edit an article on Wikipedia, even if it’s just to correct someone’s grammar.” I corrected a misspelling in one article and removed an errant comma in another. Maybe someday I’ll make more significant contributions to society. 
