“I just thought wow what a better way to have a pen pal program, to have these kids, they can work on their writing skills,” said Valerie Krieger, 4th grade teacher and founder of Operation Save.

These two 80-year-old pen pals were stationary for 68 years, but they finally found a way to meet. Patsy Gregory, from England, and Carol-Ann Krause, from New York, both 80, have been writing ...

Celesta Byrne and Geoff Banks have been across-the-pond pen pals for nearly 84 years — and recently celebrated their 100th birthdays with their first video call.

Prison pen-pal services offer similar opportunities for deep connection. Kyle Hulbert, a prisoner at River North Correctional Center in Virginia, has been locked up since 2001.

It could even be, ‘looking for a pen pal who likes to give advice to military spouses.’ So that’s one way to connect with particular veterans of like interests,” Etchberger suggested.

The University of Iowa’s Pen Pal Project welcomed a familiar face as the program’s newest coordinator. Karla Madrigal was hired in September as an academic coach for the Center for Inclusive Academic ...

Michelle Anderson, from the US, and Leonor Drago, from Portugal became pen pals as teens and are still in touch nearly 50 years later, forming a deep, emotional friendship despite only meeting ...

It regularly hosts language competitions, cultural celebration days and runs a pen pal programme with a school in Barcelona ...

Katie Van Sickle, a retired teacher, visits with pen pal Jullian Jonson, 10, on Monday, May 1, 2023, at Shorewood Senior Campus in Rochester. On Monday, Folwell elementary fifth-graders in Sarah ...

Valerie Scafaria of Middleburg Heights is finally meeting her English pen pal, Sheila, in person this week -- more than 50 years after they began writing through a Girl Scout program in 1969.