From: “Brenda Lange” Subject: BLOG, Sept. 14, 2013

BABY RESCUE SAVES 4 LIVES

On Thurs­day, I received an urgent call from Nilza, our Children’s Direc­tor, who han­dles our week­ly Baby Weigh In and For­mu­la Pro­gram. Baby Sara, who I wrote about last week, was brought in with a fever and bad­ly swollen legs (3rd spac­ing flu­ids due to a lack of pro­tein for 3 weeks). (Don’t shoot de Bun­ny), but I still didn’t get a pho­to of her, cause she need­ed imme­di­ate med­ical atten­tion. I packed up her aunt and uncle in my pick-up truck and took off for the hos­pi­tal. Lit­tle Sara received med­ica­tion to fight a res­pi­ra­to­ry infec­tion, while the Aunt was giv­en train­ing on how to han­dle her frag­ile con­di­tion. (In the mean­time, I was called back to my home for a 2nd emergency.)

The best days of plan­ning can’t fore­see days like these. Thank God for His promis­es. His strength iS sufficient.

Upon arrival back at my house, I found a fam­i­ly con­sist­ing of a moth­er with twins, accom­pa­nied by her crip­pled father (in an adult size tri-cycle), and her broth­er on his bicy­cle. The broth­er had pumped his sis­ter and her twins on the back of his bicy­cle from the Rovu­ma vil­lage 3 miles (5km) away. (The hus­band had aban­doned this young moth­er for a stronger woman who could have his babies.) Makes my Bun­ny blood boil! The moth­er basi­cal­ly has NO BLOOD (eye lids total­ly blanched white), is unable to walk, and thus her body isn’t pro­duc­ing Breast Milk for the twins. The twins (a boy and a girl) are now 6 weeks old and basi­cal­ly weigh the same as their birth weights of 5.5 lbs. each.

The Father speaks Por­tuguese, and told us his daugh­ter was hos­pi­tal­ized in Bala­ma in mid-August for the ane­mia and received 1 unit of blood. The babies were not giv­en any milk for­mu­la, and have sur­vived on only fruit drink since then. She was released from the hos­pi­tal on Sept. 1st, but isn’t get­ting bet­ter. The fam­i­ly feared the babies would per­ish with­out help as both were sick with dysen­tery since they didn’t know the water should be boiled before giv­ing it to the babies. Manel, our best dri­ver, pulled up next to the moth­er in our Land Cruis­er, and helped lift her into the back of the pick-up. The father’s wheel­chair fol­lowed, as we held the babies. Off we went to the hos­pi­tal with the entire fam­i­ly. With the Hos­pi­tal Director’s help, we got the moth­er and both babies admit­ted. They would pre­pare the moth­er for anoth­er trans­fu­sion as soon as a blood donor could be locat­ed. (No cross match­ing is pos­si­ble here, only blood typ­ing, so they min­i­mize trans­fu­sion reac­tions by using a relative’s blood.)

Two Days lat­er: (today) The father rolled into our mis­sion with a BIG SMILE on his face, and his tri-cycle loaded with 10 grass mats and 5 brooms he’d made from local reeds. I’d told him if he had any to sell, that I’d glad­ly buy them (I make a point to buy ALL local­ly made prod­ucts we need from our hand­i­capped cit­i­zens in the area.) He told us that his daugh­ter was doing OK, and that his broth­er was com­ing in today espe­cial­ly to give her a unit of blood. The Father is THRILLED that the twins are mak­ing a fast recov­ery, and are full of ener­gy after only 2 days of milk for­mu­la and treat­ment for dysentery.

These 3 babies as well as the women who care for them, will remain in our pro­grams until the chil­dren are strong and eat­ing well at 6–7 months of age.

It only takes $6/week ($24/month) to save the life of a baby under 3 months of age. We are able to keep baby for­mu­la and baby bot­tles in stock because YOU CARE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR LOVE GIFTS that help us save the lives of these inno­cent ones

“HAND IN HAND WITH THE LEAST OF THESE” is more than a mot­to with ORPHANS UNLIMITED. IT’S REALITY.

BUNNY VISITS ROVUMA CHURCH LAST SUNDAY- RESCUES 4 ORPHANS

I had a blast last Sun­day, danc­ing and singing with GENONO, the old­est mem­ber of the Rovu­ma church. No one knows how old he is, but Genono has been blessed with THREE MIRACLE HEALINGS since we start­ed the Rovu­ma church 5 years ago. Unable to walk 5 years ago, Genono lis­ten­ing to us teach on how Jesus heals the sick. Noth­ing shy about this man, as faith rose up in his heart, he asked Jesus to heal his legs and the man began to walk! Next we knew he was DANCING FOR JESUS! He’s had sev­er­al seri­ous sick­ness­es since, and Jesus healed them all!

So after church, Genono pre­sent­ed me with 2 beau­ti­ful­ly made “pin­eras” that he’d made just for me. (Genono is hold­ing them in the pho­to I took of him and his fam­i­ly in front of their new mud hut). Pas­tor Joaguim then pre­sent­ed Genono’s dif­fi­cul­ty. A fam­i­ly mem­ber had died, leav­ing him with 4 orphans (3 girls 12, 9, 8 and a boy, 7), and he didn’t have food to feed them. Would I help, as he need­ed food that very day! Genono’s house had fall­en down dur­ing this last rainy sea­son, and the church mem­bers had rebuilt it for him. He invit­ed me into his new hut, which con­tained only 1 local­ly made rope bed, a cook­ing pot and 2 water con­tain­ers. NO clothes except what they were wear­ing, and NO FOOD at all. (Genono and his wife have received food assis­tance from us for over a year due to their inabil­i­ty to farm enough to feed them­selves.) Their week’s food allot­ment had been eat­en up in 3 days with the arrival of the orphans.

I told him to give me an hour and I’d be back with what they need­ed. I didn’t have every­thing they need­ed on hand, but was able to get an emer­gency pack­age togeth­er. YOUR LOVE GIFTS PROVIDED THEM WITH: 3 grass mats and 3 blan­kets Cook­ing Pot as well as bowls and cups to eat from FOOD: A week’s worth of corn flour, beans, and salt for 6 peo­ple CLOTHES for the entire family

Genono received fur­ther assis­tance this week dur­ing our week­ly food dis­tri­b­u­tion. He and his new fam­i­ly will receive assis­tance until the chil­dren are grown thanks to YOUR LOVE.

It’s been a busy week with these res­cues as well as the largest food hand­out we have– Kwe Kwe.

Keep us in your prayers as we will spend this next week giv­ing out food in Melu­co Dis­trict (coun­ty). Our truck team will spend 4 days in 2 major parts of this huge coun­ty, giv­ing out food to the 60 orphans in Revia (near the game park) as well as the 112 Ele­phant Vil­lage orphans.

GOD’S BLESSINGS TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU FOR LOVING GOD’S CHILDREN IN MOZAMBIQUE. TOGETHER WE ARE SPREADING JESUS’ LOVE TO THE MULTITUDES!

LOVE AND HUGS,

BUSH BUNNY BRENDA AND THE BALAMA TEAM