Drat. I just submitted a long, detailed reply to this, but the site timed me out and swallowed it.
The short version is that the kids are only asked to answer letters you write every 90 days. That is, if you write every month, they'll be encouraged to answer the 1st letter, but not the letters received by KC on days 31 and 61, then they'll be asked to reply to the 4th letter (received on day 91). They might answer the others, but the 90-day rule exists to prevent overwhelming kids who find writing or travelling to the community center a struggle. Unfortunately, if you don't know this is how it works, it can look like the kids just write random letters and never respond to what you write.
So you should time letters that require replies based on 90-days, but you can send cards and stickers and "thinking of you" stuff that wouldn't require a reply in between.
Also, either keep copies of your letters or notes about what you wrote. The kids don't usually think to reference what you wrote in their reply, and by the time you get the letter you may have forgotten. And the translators don't know what the sponsor knows, so something that might make perfect sense to the sponsor if translated literally doesn't make sense to the translator, yet they have to figure out how to convey the meaning.
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