Beat Blog FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA” DATE: November 12, 2016 VISITORS COMING TO BALAMA THIS WEEK Two of our USA friends, Dave and Larry, will be arriving this week to teach and take a look at our current programs. The whole BAWANA program came into “being” here because of Dave’s vision for our children in Mozambique. Dave introduced me to Larry, and the
Bush Beat BlogF FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA” DATE: Sept.24,2016 FALLING FROM A TREE TODAY SERIOUSLY INJURES ONE OF OUR ORPHANS As I was busy writing this blog, 3 neighborhood men walked up to my home carrying 9 year old orphan, Fernando. He was unconscious after taking a face first fall from a mango tree nearby. Seems his grandmother was working in her
Bush Beat Blog FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA” DATE: SEPTEMBER 4, 2016 SHORT AND FUN This week De Bunny was hit with a mild case of malaria on Friday, and thus the late blog. (malaria is like a body flu with a bad headache). It tends to make thinking difficult, and writing impossible. The locals call it “malaria brain”, but thankfully it goes away by the
Bush Beat Blog FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“DATE: August 28, 2016 MY KINGCAB BECOMES A SCHOOL BUS ABANDONED CHILDREN RECEIVE NEW CLOTHS. THEY ALL HAVE SHOES, BUT WHEN PLAYING THEY LOVE TO GO BAREFOOT. While at the “Abandoned Kids Complex”, Pedro, one of the 5 year old twins, walked up and asked me something in Makua. I didn’t understand, so I took his hand and walked him
Bush Beat Blog FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA” DATE: August 14, 2016 AGUAS VIVAS SHOE STORE PUTS SMILES ON LITTLE FACES Foster Mother Balbina and her girls, the first to get to choose shoes from our Australian donors at Syrah Resources. These smiles tell it all, as these orphans/abandoned kids show off their new shoes. Thanks to our Australian friends and their families at Syrah Resources,
FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA” DATE: August 5, 2016 ANGELICA, A 2ND CHANCE CHILD Eight year old Angelica came to us as an infant, barely a month old. Her grandmother threw the baby into a field to die, for her daughter was dead. Grandma felt hopeless for there was no milk for the crying infant. The grandmother later told us that she felt it
Bush Beat Blog FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA” DATE: July 9, 2016 JULY 4 th EXPLODES WITH CHALLENGES It all began at 6 a.m. with the foster mothers at our home for “abandoned children” reporting a theft and a runawa I’ve always said that when it rains it pours around here, and such was the story that day. It RAINED both drops from heaven, making the
Bush Beat Blog FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA” DATE: July 2, 2016 FRANCOS, FRANCOS! (chicken, chicken!) FOSTER MOTHER ROSA HOLDING DANIAL WITH ORPHAN SAMUEL, AGE 12, RECEIVING TWO BAGS OF CHICKEN FROM OUR FRIENDS AT SODEXO AND SYRAH RESOURCES. CHILDRENS DIRECTOR, ANNA, IS DISTRIBUTING FROM THE TRUCK, ASSISTED BY MONSUR. This was the cry echoing through our foster homes last Wed. when Sodexo’s Robert Bradley
FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA” DATE: June 26, 2016 WHY GOD CALLED A COWGIRL When God calls anyone to missions, the first question that crosses most minds is “WHY ME, LORD?” In 1987, I was an unequipped, new baby Christian, who hardly knew any of God’s Word. Those who know me well realize that I am a very practical person who appreciates practical answers in bullet
Bush Beat Blog FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA” DATE: June 11, 2016 220 TONS NOW IN CORN BARN IN EIGHT DAYS our 92 man team “did their thing”, even in an unexpected rain storm, giving us all the corn needed to feed 2,500 orphans through December. Each year, Capena, our office manager, organizes the purchase of the corn from 31 village Co-ops that he helped