FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: SEPTEMBER 26, 2020 CHILD-HEADED HOUSEHOLD NEEDS OUR HELP MEET THE COUSINS WHO BECAME A FAMILY:  (L‑R) Celi­­na-12, Fer­­­nan­­do-13, Mani­ho-16, Nionel­­da-14, Dean­ha-17. Eleven years ago, 2 sis­ters died with­in a week of each oth­er. One died in child­birth and the oth­er for unknown rea­sons. Each sis­ter had 5 small chil­dren who went to live with their Grand­moth­er, (10 kids in all). Need­less to say, Granny need­ed food

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: SEPTEMBER 19, 2020 EVA SHOWING OFF HER HOME SKILLS Eva, the first child we took into our fam­i­ly in 2000, is now 22 years old. (Yeap, I just com­plet­ed 20 years in Bala­ma!) Two year old Eva and her Grand­moth­er came to us because Eva was suf­fer­ing from 6 major seizures DAILY due to Cere­bral Pal­sy. Long sto­ry, short, the doc­tors that

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: SEPTEMBER 12, 2020 LIFE SKILLS LEADS TO EMPLOYMENT  Widnes (Wit-ness), an orphan who grew up in the ear­ly years of our pro­gram, is now 27 and a trained car­pen­ter’s assis­tant on his way to becom­ing a mas­ter car­pen­ter. When he grad­u­at­ed high school in 2011, he request­ed to appren­tice under our mis­sion sta­tion’s mas­ter car­pen­ter. This was 9 years ago, long before a life

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: SEPTEMBER 5, 2020 LIFE SKILLS TRAINING BEGINS With all the con­struc­tion delays caused by this virus, our staff decid­ed to go ahead with life skills train­ing for our 4 old­est teenage boys vs wait­ing for the con­struc­tion of an offi­cial “place” in which to teach them. All 4 of these young men are in their final 2 years of school, and need

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: AUGUST 29, 2020 LAST OF THE HARVEST LEAVES THE FIELDS Our 18 Grannies who are part of our mis­sion base, have kept their orphaned grand­chil­dren very busy in the last 2 weeks as they bring in the last of their har­vest. Each of our Grannies and the Fos­ter Moth­ers of our 6 orphan homes receives about 1 acre of land to use as

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: AUGUST 22, 2020 STANDARD BANK DONATES FACE MASKS Our chil­dren, Muzi­la, Fati­ma, and Ali rep­re­sent­ed our entire chil­dren’s group in a sur­prise cer­e­mo­ny on Thurs­day to receive an entire case of cloth face masks with the bank’s emblem on them. The old­er chil­dren will be giv­en instruc­tions on when and how to use them before we dis­trib­ute them.  Thank you Stan­dard Bank for your concern

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: AUGUST 15, 2020 AND THE LAME SHALL WALK! Pas­tor Alber­to, in Namuno Dis­trict, report­ed that a woman named, Juli­et­ta, HADN’T WALKED IN 3 MONTHS due to a severe back injury which occurred right after she gave birth to a healthy baby girl. Her fam­i­ly are Jesus believ­ers, so they trans­port­ed her from a remote vil­lage deep in the bush to where Pas­tor Alber­to has

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: AUGUST 8, 2020 SNEAKY SNAKE GETS CAUGHT I was walk­ing near my dog pen when I saw a snake track that left the dog pen and returned onto itself after a few yards. It was fresh, cause I had walked that same area just a few min­utes before. Mean­ing: snake is near­by.  Call­ing my guard, I began to look for it when my mechan­ic yelled

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: AUGUST 1, 2020 VISITORS ENCOURAGE OUR CHILDREN At 9 a.m. yes­ter­day we wel­comed Balama’s Admin­is­tra­tor and sev­en oth­er key Dis­trict Lead­ers to our mis­sion sta­tion for a brief 20 minute ori­en­ta­tion of our project. The Admin­is­tra­tor was keen to see our food ware­hous­es, which are stun­ning right now since they are full. The group then vis­it­ed our children’s homes, and were impressed at how well our children

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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: JULY 25, 2020 DOG SAVES BUNNY FROM NASTY COBRA! Sun­day, July 19, I was about to step out­side my house at noon (warmest day of last week), when Misha (Mee­sha), a vis­it­ing dog from next door, set up an urgent bark­ing. She is nor­mal­ly very qui­et, and loves to lay in the sun on my car port just out­side my back door. I immediately

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