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Bush Bunny Brenda Blog: October 12, 2024

GRANNY PUTS NEPHEWS TO WORK 

Once a month we need to dehull rice for our infants, as the Fos­ter Moms make their own rice cere­al for the babies in our care. This also gives the wid­ows a chance to make some pock­et mon­ey, as I pre­fer the funds to go to the wid­ows vs. a local mill.

Some of our wid­ows hard at work, dehulling rice. See them in action at our YouTube Chan­nel: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/I7N_TT6C420
Emilio and Felez show off their perfect rhythm, dehulling rice for Granny. The boys work in perfect rhythm as they cut the dehulling time in half by working as a team.
Emilio and Felez show off their per­fect rhythm, dehulling rice for Granny. The boys work in per­fect rhythm as they cut the dehulling time in half by work­ing as a team. See them in action on YouTube at this link: https://youtube.com/shorts/lRQ7of2YWws?si=DFNu3m43hmc-r4Uo
One of our Grannies brought her 2 nephews this week and put them to work. She is up in age, and no longer has the strength to do the entire dehulling by her­self. I grabbed a video of the boys work­ing in per­fect rhythm as they cut the dehulling time in half by work­ing as a team. I tru­ly appre­ci­ate the wid­owed grannies that live near us, as they tru­ly know how to raise a child in the way they should go so they won’t depart from it.
2 OF THE MIRACLE BABIES NOW WALKING!

Baby Mila­gre (means Mir­a­cle), is now just over 1 year old and walk­ing very well! Milagre’s moth­er passed away after a C‑section was per­formed in the Region­al Hos­pi­tal. Her son, named Mila­gre by his father, was saved, PTL! But the father had no female rel­a­tive to help care for the new­born. So Mila­gre was sent to us by Social Ser­vices as he was very frag­ile after his rough start in life. 

Mila­gre enjoy­ing his new free­dom! See him in action at our YouTube Chan­nel. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Vl6Dz-nqOWQ
He is a joy to care for and a very hap­py boy now that he has mobil­i­ty. He will return to his father when he’s around 4 years old, but until then, we get to enjoy this bun­dle of joy!

ALBERTINA was aban­doned in the Bala­ma hos­pi­tal by her fam­i­ly, weigh­ing only 5.7kg/12.5 lbs. at 13 months of age. Even the Doc­tors held lit­tle hope that she would sur­vive, as her mal­nu­tri­tion sta­tus was one of the most severe they had ever seen. Nev­er under­es­ti­mate God’s heal­ing power!

Alberti­na after 4 months of good care. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YdxApmjFMkw
Prayer by our staff and the baby’s spon­sors, as well as a high pro­tein diet, soon had her released from the hos­pi­tal and on the road to recov­ery. Even the Doc­tors were amazed!

FOUR MONTHS LATER, this lit­tle girl weighs 9.4kg/21 lbs. AND IS WALKING!

ONLY GOD can pull off that kind of recov­ery, for it usu­al­ly takes up to 6 months to get a baby to gain this kind of weight. Alberti­na has been dif­fer­ent from the start, and I believe the Lord has great plans for that lit­tle girl!

YOUR LOVE GIFTS MAKE ALL THIS POSSIBLE, AND FOR THAT WE ARE TRULY GRATEFUL!

Bless­ings,
Bush Bun­ny Bren­da Lange
And the Bala­ma Staff

Bush Bunny Brenda Blog: October 5, 2024

LITTLE DISCIPLES CLASS RECEIVE NEW LEARNING MATERIALS

Our Lit­tle Dis­ci­ples class is for our chil­dren ages 3 to 5 years. Its pur­pose is to pre­pare them for 1st grade by learn­ing Por­tuguese through song, and grasp­ing “how to learn”. Our Assis­tant Children’s Direc­tor, Fati­ma, teach­es them basic num­bers up to 10, as well as the alpha­bet, and Bible Sto­ries.

While fetch­ing my Pass­port in Maputo last week, I had 3 hours in which to find and buy new learn­ing mate­ri­als that are not avail­able in our area. Bun­nies are always hop­ping around, so thought I’d make this trip ben­e­fi­cial for the chil­dren.

Flash­cards of 10 dif­fer­ent sub­jects can be used in both the Lit­tle Dis­ci­ples Class, and with our 1st to 3rd graders. I also found 5 children’s books IN PORTUGUESE that will broad­en their horizons.
Lit­tle Dis­ci­ples enjoy­ing the new num­ber flashcards. 

Watch the chil­dren repeat­ing their num­ber les­son at this YouTube link: https://youtube.com/shorts/NCiQtHm-XMs?feature=share
Our goal is to help all our chil­dren learn as much as they can dur­ing their young devel­op­men­tal phase.

I don’t know who was hap­pi­est about my find, the teach­ers or the stu­dents. The adults have nev­er seen books and flash­cards like this, so they are just as fas­ci­nat­ed as the chil­dren with their new learn­ing mate­ri­als.YOUR LOVE GIFTS MAKE THIS POSSIBLE, SO ALL OF US SEND OUT THANKS!


CLEAN WATER FOR MELUCO CHILDREN!

A request from Melu­co Dis­trict sent our water well repair team to that area with many spares your Love Gifts pro­vid­ed. The pho­tos tell the sto­ry of how they repaired 16 bro­ken wells with these spares, pro­vid­ing 1000’s of chil­dren with clean water.

Manuel pulling the pump rods on a well.
Suc­cess­ful repair brings clean water and lots of joy to all in this vil­lage!

Click the link to see the YouTube video.https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4RCbrU1ZnUM

Manuel and vil­lagers pulling a bro­ken water well pipe.
All this is pos­si­ble because YOU CARE that the chil­dren in our area have clean water, some­thing most peo­ple take for grant­ed. CLEAN WATER EQUALS HEALTHY PEOPLE.

Diar­rhea and Cholera is caused by drink­ing con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed water, and is still the # 2 killer in our area (2nd only to malar­ia).

THANK YOU FOR MAKING THESE WATER WELL REPAIRS POSSIBLE!

BLESSINGS,
BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE
AND THE BALAMA STAFF