BABY SANTOS NOW 5 MONTHS WITH A HEFTY APPETITE!

Granny Josephi­na decid­ed this week it was time to return to Rovu­ma to care for her 5 old­er grand­chil­dren who were orphaned when Baby San­tos was born. Friends report­ed to us that the chil­dren were strug­gling under their uncle’s care, and real­ly need­ed their granny.

Granny Josephine with Uncle and 5 orphans.

Baby San­tos will remain in our care for a few more months, as he is just begin­ning to show con­sis­tent weight gain. Small for his age, San­tos should gain weight at a faster pace now that he is eat­ing rice cere­al as well as the “high pro­tein” HYPO Cere­al we pro­vide for under­weight babies.

Cute Baby San­tos at 5 months.

Note:  I fly to S. Africa next week to fetch more Hypo Baby Cere­al as our sup­ply is run­ning low due to the many addi­tion­al babies that need­ed our help dur­ing the rainy season.

TWINS NEED A HELPING HAND

These 6 week old twins were reg­is­tered into our “Help­ing Hand” pro­gram for non-orphan babies this week. Their birth Mom doesn’t have enough breast milk for 2 fast grow­ing babies, so we con­tribute baby for­mu­la to sup­ple­ment Mom’s milk until her lit­tle ones can eat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mom with twins need­ing baby for­mu­la so that both can live.

This is a typ­i­cal need for almost every Mom with twins.  For those of you who have breast fed one hun­gry baby, you can total­ly under­stand the dilemma.

VICTORY HOUSE’S FANCY BATHROOM ALMOST DONE

Now most of you may have a dif­fer­ent men­tal pic­ture of what a “fan­cy” bath­room should look like, so I will clear the air with pho­tos. With­out run­ning water, you keep it very sim­ple, yet san­i­tary and private.

You start by dig­ging 2 very deep (16 ft.) holes, 4 ft. (1.2m) in cir­cum­fer­ence. Ring it with con­crete bricks, then slap an already fab­ri­cat­ed con­crete toi­let top on it. Now you have 2 “LONG DROPS” or “OUT HOUSES”, depend­ing on which coun­try you live in.

Moz. “long drops” and 2 bathing areas.

Put in 4 divider walls, and voila! You have a “fan­cy” bathing/toilet area that can serve 4 peo­ple at once. Vic­to­ry House will serve a min­i­mum of 12 chil­dren and 3 fos­ter moth­ers, so extra bath­rooms makes a hap­py household!

Com­plet­ed bath­room with sep­tic and clothes wash­ing area under construction.

THANK YOU TO ALL AT VICTORY CHURCH IN TULSA FOR MAKING THIS NEW HOME POSSIBLE. We are mov­ing at a fast pace, and will keep you updat­ed as we work hard to com­plete the final “fin­ish­ing” work.

Bless­ings,

Bush Bun­ny Bren­da Lange

And the Bala­ma Staff