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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“
DATE: APRIL 9, 2022
 
CARING FOR HIGH RISK INFANTS
 
FRANCIANO, a tiny 5‑month-old baby boy, was brought to our mis­sion at noon on Fri­day after los­ing first his father, then his moth­er from ill­ness. His grand­moth­er and uncle had tried their best to save him since his moth­er died 3 weeks ago from dysen­tery, but he was­n’t respond­ing. 
 
The thin grand­moth­er, not very old her­self, had been breast­feed­ing him as she has an infant of her own. His weight record of only 3kg/6.6lbs. told me he was not grow­ing, and his high fever shout­ed malar­ia!
 

Fran­ciano has a chance, thanks to your love for these inno­cent ones.
 
Please pray for this lit­tle one, as his blood test at the hos­pi­tal revealed life threat­en­ing ane­mia as his Hbg (red blood count) was only 4!  (12 is nor­mal)
 
A trans­fu­sion was orga­nized by night­fall, so now our 2 fos­ter moth­ers are giv­ing him plen­ty of love and baby for­mu­la, as we all wait to see how he responds as Sat­ur­day dawns. 
 
Car­ing for these frag­ile, high risk infants is one rea­son Jesus sent me here. The Lord arranged spe­cial­ized train­ing for me in this med­ical field as I was attend­ing Bible School, and work­ing in PICU AND NICU at St. John’s hos­pi­tal in Tul­sa, OK.
 
With God’s heal­ing hand, and the abil­i­ty we have to help the most frag­ile of orphans, these “inno­cent ones” are giv­en every pos­si­ble oppor­tu­ni­ty to sur­vive and thrive!
 
THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS POSSIBLE!
 
I will keep you informed on how this lit­tle one does this week.
 
LEARNING IN THE SAND
 
Our pri­ma­ry school tutor knows how to make learn­ing fun! With a week of dry weath­er, he had the 6:30 a.m. class out­side in the sand doing their math lessons. The kids loved it as their faces beamed with hap­pi­ness!


Anna shows off her super math skills!
 

Teacher PEDRO and our 2nd and 3rd graders enjoy­ing “sand math”.​
 
NATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY!
April 7th is cel­e­brat­ed in Mozam­bique as a day to hon­or all women. The hos­pi­tal Direc­tor received a pick up load of food gifts for the wom­en’s day feast, which she hap­pi­ly shared with our moth­ers. We hon­ored all the fos­ter moth­ers and female staff with the spe­cial “caplana” designed for this occa­sion. It’s a wrap­around skirt that is the tra­di­tion­al dress of women in this coun­try. 
 

8 of our 21 fos­ter moth­ers show off their Wom­en’s Day caplanas!
 
BLESSINGS, 
BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE 
AND THE BALAMA STAFF