Facebook Friends

Tamara wanted me to share this letter she received from CI with the group:

"Joy Ann has been enrolled in our program, but since you and Jhonalyn are friends on Facebook we are not able to assign Joy Ann to you, as it conflicts with our no direct contact policy. In order to protect the privacy and well being of our sponsored children and our sponsors, we have strict policies in place that do not allow direct, unsupervised communications between sponsored children and sponsors. This includes letters, phone calls, visits and any electronic social networking sites.

In addition to our internal policies, we follow the guidelines of InterAction, a coalition of over 150 U.S.-based non-profit organizations working to promote human dignity and development in more than 160 countries around the world.

InterAction’s child protection standards call for child sponsorship organizations to review all correspondence between sponsors and children for inappropriate material and to ensure that the children’s privacy is protec ted . We must supervise all phone calls, sponsor visits and any other type of contact between the children and their sponsors."