Open Letter Requests

This section of our Writers’ Portal is for our writers who are not on POINT (aka most of you!). Read through the open requests below and click ‘write to her’ to be directed to a quick form to get in our system as a writer for her. After that, you’ll get an email with her details.

All letters are to be clearly marked for the recipient and mailed to TLP HQ (P.O. Box 218, Kingsville, MO 64061) within 7 days of selecting your gal.

The date listed is the date the request was first added to the Portal. If it is still listed, the girl still needs letters! Please consider filling older requests so that all ladies receive letters prompty.

Questions? Email us anytime!

Write to Marysia.

Age: 30-something
Requested by: Friend
Location: Switzerland
Topic: Mental Health

What’s going on? She went through so much. After almost dying at the premature birth of her son in 2012, the father of the child started to abuse her. Luckily she managed to escape but had to face a new reality as an immigrant single mom of a child that needs special care. I don't know how she found the strength to build her own company(a cafe), but she gave up because her son had to spend months in the hospital, because of his chronic sickness. He lost a lot of school time and the authorities completely misjudged her case and took her son away from her into a children's home where she had to fight for five years to get him out. A year ago she finally won that battle and they were reunited. So when the battle was over and even got written proof that her boy was taken away unlawfully, she developed a complex PTSD and was left completely alone raising her now teenage son.

What do you love most about this girl? While going through all of this, she still kept her humor, still helped others in need, and didn't lose hope. Her and her son have an incredible bond. She is and always was a very engaged mother, friend, daughter and sister. Even in the worst situations she seems to see smth positive without minimizing the pain and hardship. I love how she turned her closest friends to their support system, so her son has her best friend and godfather as constant positive male figures in his life.

P.S. I hate to see such a loving and creative woman struggling with poverty and a severe PTSD due to what has been done to her and her son. She doesn't have the strength at the moment to start a legal case against what happened to them. She lost her ability to work, her strength to stand up against the authorities, her social status and her mental health. All I wish for her is not to pressure herself and take the needed time to rebuild herself. I really believe she will make a difference to other women in the future once she heals from her past 14 years. I hope to find for her words of comfort from a global sisterhood to strengthen her in that dark fight against PTSD from systemic violence.

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Write your letter and get it in the mail within one week to The Letter Project at P.O. Box 218, Kingsville, MO 64061. We’ll take it from there! You can place multiple letters in one envelope, as long as each letter/card clearly identifies the letter recipient.

*Please note that The Letter Project does not edit the content of the request to maintain the integrity of the situation. TLP is not responsible for any typos, misspellings, or incorrect phrasing. Should you have a question regarding a request, please email TLP.

Write to Mira.

Age: Teenager (16-20)
Requested by: Sister
Location: Switzerland
Topic: Health

What’s going on? Mira is my beloved older sister. Though she is older, she only just learned how to read — and that alone speaks volumes about her determination. Mira has a condition called Feingold Syndrome and is severely handicapped- body and mental. When she was born, doctors said she would not make it past the age of three. She is now 16, and she fought every single day to get here. She can barely walk, but she still stands up every morning and trains with her walking aid — because that is just who she is. She is also deaf and mute, which would mean I could sign the letters to her myself, so that she can feel every single word. In May, we found out that her one remaining kidney is no longer functioning well. And yet, she keeps going. Mira has never received a letter. She deserves to be seen, to be celebrated, to know that people she has never met are thinking of her and rooting for her. Please help me show her that the world is full of kindness.

What do you love most about this girl? She is the strongest person I have ever known. She fought like a warrior through every single operation, survived every one of them, and rolled herself through hospital corridors in pain — in her blue wheelchair with dolphins on it, because she wanted the one the boys had, not the princess one. That is Mira.

She loves dogs more than almost anything in this world — probably more than she loves me, and I say that with the biggest smile. She loves animals, paintings, and nature in all its forms.

She makes me want to live. She is my sunshine.

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