Letter to an unknown mother

I sent a care package to the Qianjiang orphanage this week in care of Qian Li Han. Since she is in foster care, I addressed a letter to the director of the orphanage asking her to deliver the package along with a personal letter to Makena's foster mother. Our agency translated it into Mandarin. This is what I wrote.

Dear Foster Mother of Qian Li Han:

Words cannot express the gratitude we have for the love, care and compassion you and your family have shown toward Qian Li Han. I realize that saying goodbye to her will be a very emotional and sad day as well as a great act of courage on your part to remain strong. Please know and trust that Li Han will be deeply loved and that we will do everything that we possibly can to ensure a very bright future for her. He American name will be Makena Rae Lihan (loosely translated to mean: our beautiful gift of sunshine) - which she is. She will have a brother (Jack) who is eight years old, a father, a mother, two aunts, two uncles, two cousins, one grand-mother and two grand-fathers, all of whom await her with open arms and boundless love.

I am sending you two cameras that I would ask you to take pictures of yourself with Li Han and your family and her environment so that she can have a memory of her early life with you, which will be so important to her when she is older. I am enclosing toys for Li Han and some clothes, as well as a small gift to show my appreciation for all that you have done.

Sincerely and with the utmost gratitude,


Isabelle
Li Han's new mother.