Penpal for DD

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DD(9) would really like a pen pal to write letters to, so I've been looking online for a way to find one.

Does anyone have a recommendations for websites or programmes where I'd be able to find one for her? Obviously it's really important to make sure her pen pal is who they say they are, any suggestions on how to make sure of that?

Thank you to anyone who can help!

Not a pen pal exactly but I recommend postcrossing! Lots of fun

I couldn't advise on how to find a penpal these days unless maybe you could see if your dd's school could forge links with another school in another part of the world, or her Brownie group connect with the girl scouts or whatever.
It doesn't necessarily need to be abroad so long as she and her penpal have enough differences in their lifestyles to make it interesting, e.g. One kid in London, one in remote Scotland, or one kid in Belfast, the other on the Isle of Man.
I had a penpal from when I was about ten, an American about six months older than me, and we progressed from writing on airmail paper to emailing to now using messanger. We are now 55 and still in touch every ten days to two weeks. We met up once in our 30s when we went to Florida and she and her family drove down from New England to meet us.
Even though we shared the same language I didn't have a clue what she was on about sometimes when we were kids and vice versa, I'm sure, and whereas now you can send a quick message back saying what do you mean by xyz, back then it was a load of faff to buy the airmail paper, to go the Post Office to send the letter and wait weeks for a reply. Times have changed and I love it when I can see she's online and send and receive an instant reply across the Atlantic!
I gained a great deal from it, and even now probably tell her things I might not tell one of my real life friends, because we've known each other so long and because I know she can't gossip to mutual friends, and I value her advice because she's somewhat removed so can sometimes see it from a different perspective.
I can't remember who we started writing, by the way. Comics sometimes had a penpal section in those days so maybe it was through that.
I have two other sort of penpals I connected with too, albeit when I was grown up. One was a Chicago woman I met on holiday in Canada and then I got friendly with her friend too after meeting her when I went to stay with the Chicago woman. The friend of the friend lives in...I can't remember exactly - mid West somewhere. I don't think they're on messenger so we email two or three times a year.