January 8, 2010

President Barak Obama
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20500

Dear President Obama,

Our names are Simon and Lucy. We are age 10 and 8 and we are homeschooled in the city of Minnetonka, in the state of Minnesota. We learn many things in school, like, math, history, science, language arts, grammar, and now, we are beginning to study World Issues that affect us today. Now, we are learning about Darfur. We know that there is starvation, injuries, deaths, bad drinking water, fear and health problems. Where I live, we don’t have those problems. We get to do piano and piano costs money and we know that people don’t have money in Darfur. Comparing our life to the people in Darfur makes us feel like we are the richest people on earth. We would give all our food to them if we needed to.

We are sending you this letter because we want you to know that we appreciate what you are doing to help the people in Darfur. We are trying to help also by buying a t-shirt that says, “Help Darfur” and playing Free Rice on the computer. Have Sasha or Malia ever played Free Rice? You can find it on Freerice.com. We think they would like it.

Thank you for taking the time to read our letter. Our mom just showed us a video on how many letters you get each day. We hope THIS letter makes it as one of the 10 that is taken to your desk.

Sincerely,

Simon Avenson and Lucy Avenson