La Couarde, Ile de Re,
June 6th, 1939.
My dear Foster Parent:
Even though I do not know you, I know you
have a heart of gold, and that you are interested
in me.
I am a little girl, who is in this colony
because I don’t know where my poor mother is.
A man lives not only by bread, but also by love,
and my parents cannot give it to me now. Our
teachers love us, but since there are two hundred
of us, there is not enough to go around. You
offer love and I accept it gladly.
As a proof of our friendship, will you send
me your photograph? Please excuse me for writing
first.
From she who loves you with all her heart.
Lidia Diaz

Lidia is twelve years old. She is one of the
forty children who have not yet found foster
parents. Sixty children have been “adopted”,
but by the end of august, we must find foster
parents for the whole hundred children, who have
been given to us in Canada to care for.
WILL YOU HELP US?