FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: OCTOBER 31, 2020 BABY MAEZINHA JOINS OUR FAMILY Last Sunday, Granny Aluina, whom I introduced you to last week, walked in from her village with the very ill baby girl, Maezinha. (An error on the paperwork had me report this baby as a boy in last week’s blog.) Maezinha, 6 months old, is malnourished as she weighs only 5.2kg/11.4 lbs. She had a high
FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: OCTOBER 24, 2020 JOSEPH PROGRAM 2020 NOW COMPLETED! The Joseph Program is the name the Lord gave me for our Village Food Distribution Program: Fill the barns in time of plenty and give out in the time of hunger. Our staff has been busy doing just that since August 1, 2020. Orphans and widows assisted TOTALED 1,864 in Balama and Meluco Districts. The photos in
FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: OCTOBER 17, 2020 ORPHAN HOUSE #7—ROOFING IN PROGRESS! It’s a big job putting a roof on a house that is 71 feet/22 meters long. On Monday, Oct. 12th, I took video footage of the brick-layer team helping the 6 carpenters lift up the 6 (SIX!!) 200 lb./90 kg trusses onto the walls for proper positioning. The carpenters spent the next 4 days securing the cross
FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: OCTOBER 10, 2020 FABULOUS FIVE MOVE INTO NEW HOME Wednesday, the Fabulous Five Teenagers happily moved into their new home. Our staff helped them extend mosquito nets over their new beds, and get all their belongings moved to the new site. You can see many of the gifts 4 of the teens showed off on moving day.New home, many gifts for Child Headed household. Fourteen year old Fernando
FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: OCTOBER 3, 2020 HEALTHY TRIPLETS THANKS TO YOUR HELP Triplets Marcia, Marcelina, and Marcelo are now very healthy at 6 months as they all weigh over 14.5 lbs/6.6kg thanks to your help.As you can see from their photo, they are chubby little tykes, who began life at only a little over 2 kgs/4.5lbs each. Balama town triplets Marcia, Marcelina, and Marcelo. The 2nd set
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
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
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
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
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