My Story

Hello! My name is Nolan. I am 3 years old and my birthday is in September. I am happy to share with you about myself and my family through the questions that the team of Adopt a Child is asking me. I am doing well and in good health. My favorite color is blue. I desire to become a driver when I grow up. I have lots of car toys and love to play riding them in our living room. I have also a children little bicycle and I cycle it in front of my house or inside. This type of bicycle is very small. I go to kindergarten here in the village where I live and enjoy learning new things and playing with toys with my classmates. We learn poems by heart and do lots of singing and dancing. After the lesson hour, our teacher takes us outside to spend time playing in nature. We also take short distance walks. I spend the first part of my day at kindergarten and at midday, my mother comes to take me from there and together we walk to return at the house. After I eat lunch, I like to go outside and play with my friends and cousins who live near my house. We meet to play in the roads, and our games are simple. During the day, while I am inside the house, I like to draw and color, play with my toys and watch cartoons or programs for children on television. I have five members in my family who are my father, mother, two older sisters and I. My older sisters go to school and are also registered in the program. We live in a village that belongs to the community of Prrenjas and this town is close. We travel there whenever we need to do shopping. We have no hospital or clinics in our village and when we need to get a visit from the doctor, we need to go to the hospital of the town. The town has also the community offices and we go there when we need to receive different services needed. Our house is in good condition of living. We own our land and my father deals with farming, planting vegetables and crops for consumption. The farming is not very beneficial and for this reason, my father emigrates in Greece and there he works being hired as shepherd. We miss him while he works far from the house, but we are happy that he can work and provide for us. My father is also working together with other men, caching fish in the lake of Pogradec and selling it. Doing these two jobs combined, he provides income for our family. My mother works on our vegetable garden and afterwords, she does housekeeping. She gets very busy all day long because she needs to do a lot of work and care for both my sisters and me. Besides crops and vegetables we have fruit trees. After collecting the fruits, my mother boils them to turn to jam or fruit juice for consumption. I am happy I got registered in the sponsorship program of Adopt a Child, after frequenting regularly in the Bible classes and church services together with my two sisters and my other friends who go there. I am happy that have the possibility to learn about the Lord through the Bible lessons and from now on, I will start to receive food packages constantly. Thank you very much for the spiritual and physical care you provide for me and my family. God bless you richly!

Translated by Martin Rucolli

LW/Adopt a Child Albania