FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: AUGUST 13, 2022  CERTIFICATE OF RECOGNITION RECEIVED Cer­tifi­cate of Recog­ni­tion giv­en by Bala­ma Admin­is­tra­tor to our church The Bala­ma Admin­is­tra­tor hon­ored us with a Cer­tifi­cate of Recog­ni­tion for all that our pro­gram (Igre­ja Aguas Vivas/Living Waters Church) has con­tributed to assist Balama’s chil­dren and wid­ows over the last 21 years.  It is a great hon­or to receive such recog­ni­tion as it is not given

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: NOVEMBER 4, 2022 2 REVERENDS RETURN TO BALAMA Rev­erends Gito and Ramadan returned to Bala­ma late Mon­day after­noon after an adven­tur­ous trip to Tete City, then on to Malawi for their ordi­na­tion. The trip was suc­cess­ful, but not with­out chal­lenges.  L. to R. Rev­erend Gito, Bish­op Zali­ra, and Rev­erend Ramadan. A Cholera out­break made cross­ing the bor­der a bit chal­leng­ing due to restric­tions that helps

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: NOVEMBER 4, 2022 2 REVERENDS RETURN TO BALAMA Rev­erends Gito and Ramadan returned to Bala­ma late Mon­day after­noon after an adven­tur­ous trip to Tete City, then on to Malawi for their ordi­na­tion. The trip was suc­cess­ful, but not with­out chal­lenges.  L. to R. Rev­erend Gito, Bish­op Zali­ra, and Rev­erend Ramadan. A Cholera out­break made cross­ing the bor­der a bit chal­leng­ing due to restric­tions that helps

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: AUGUST 6, 2022 NEGLECTED BABY ANCHA JOINS THE FAMILY Baby Ancha when 1st admit­ted to milk pro­gram in mid April Ancha’s moth­er ran out of breast milk when Baby Ancha (born March 6) was 5 weeks old.  Social Ser­vices request­ed that we admit her to our Infant For­mu­la Pro­gram, which we did in mid-April.Baby Ancha only comes in every 2 weeks due to living

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: JULY 30, 2022 WHAT CAME IN NOW GOES OUT Our barns are FULL!!! 308 TONS OF CORN! 108 TONS OF BEANS! Last but not least. 90 TONS OF RICE IN THE HULL! The food has already start­ed going out to those orphans and wid­ows in the Bala­ma area as they have only small farms which can­not sus­tain them for over a month. Our staff dis­trib­utes food each Wednesday

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: JULY 23, 2022 RICE PORRIDGE ANYONE? With 90 TONS now fill­ing 2 barns, our kids can have rice any­time they want it.  We buy our rice in the hull, straight from the field, as wee­vils don’t mess with it.  God’s shell keeps those tasty lit­tle ker­nels nice and safe until we desire to dehull it for eat­ing.  Our group of wid­ows liv­ing in

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: JULY 16, 2022 CORN BARN IS FULL TO THE BRIM! All 5,200 sacks (312 TONS) were weighed and stacked in our corn barn over 7 days by our VERY POWERFUL 106-man team.   Our weigh­ing sta­tion at sun­rise. 600 sacks weigh­ing 132 lbs/60 kgs went over that scale each day for 7 work­ing days Start­ing dai­ly in the dark using our pick up lights at 4:30 a.m.,

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: JULY 9, 2022 CORN, CORN, AND MORE CORN! The major­i­ty of our staff’s whole week has cen­tered around the corn buy­ing with the pho­tos pret­ty much telling the sto­ry. The remain­der of the corn will be weighed and stored this com­ing week, com­plet­ing this mon­u­men­tal task, so we can move on to buy­ing rice. With more and more baby orphans show­ing up here week­ly, our

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: JULY 2, 2022 JESSICA RETURNS! Jes­si­ca Christie, now a Board Mem­ber for Orphans Unlim­it­ed, is return­ing to assist with our chil­dren while I am tied up with corn buy­ing. So, I was off to Pem­ba to fetch her at the air­port on Fri­day, just 3 days before our Corn Buy­ing Spree takes off on Mon­day, July 4th.  While you cel­e­brate the USA Independence

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: JUNE 25, 2022 INFANT ELSA JOINS OUR FAMILY Elsa was admit­ted to our baby for­mu­la pro­gram short­ly after her birth on April 9th, as her moth­er died of post­par­tum prob­lems. She pre­sent­ed with malar­ia a month ago and a blood­less low­er eye lid, which told me she was very, very ane­mic. Baby Elsa joins our family​. Her grand­moth­er agreed to admit her to the hospital

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