BABY NELITA RELEASED AND HOUSE # 6 IS NOW OPEN WITH 7 CHILDREN

Baby Neli­ta, released late Fri­day, Jan­u­ary 10th, is now hap­pi­ly in her NEW HOME at House #6. Enjoy­ing her high pro­tein diet, Neli­ta is still on oral antibi­otics for 5 more days, as her ear and res­pi­ra­to­ry infec­tions have not total­ly resolved. Her weight gain should accel­er­ate now that her body is more healthy, and her appetite has returned.

Neli­ta in her new home at House #6.

She is still ane­mic, with a weak­ened immune sys­tem, but on a liq­uid Iron sup­ple­ment for infants as well as mul­ti-vit­a­mins. Being iso­lat­ed from oth­er young chil­dren until her immune lev­els increase, is of vital impor­tance. Thus the move to the new bed­room at House #6.

PLEASE CONTINUE YOUR PRAYERS FOR THIS LITTLE ONE.  IT WAS TRULY “TOUCH AND GO” FOR A FEW DAYS IN HOSPITAL, and there is NO DOUBT that your prayers helped her through those dif­fi­cult days. We are still fight­ing to get her com­plete­ly healthy, and laid hands on her for a rapid recov­ery once she was in her new bed­room yesterday.

Mon­day, due to Nelita’s delayed release, our staff moved Fos­ter Moth­er Ben­di­ta and the 4 orphans in her care into House #6.

They were delight­ed and a bit over­whelmed, as they had nev­er lived in a mod­ern con­crete home with REAL BEDS and MATTRESSES!

It took us 3 days due to heavy rains on Mon­day and Tues­day to set up the new bunk beds, wash the new­ly sewn bed sheets, set up mos­qui­to nets, and get the kitchen ful­ly operational. 

House #6 res­i­dents Baby Neli­ta and fos­ter moth­er Fati­ma, along with fos­ter moth­er Ben­di­ta and her four orphans will be joined by a third fos­ter moth­er, Maria, and two more childten this week. We are busy prepar­ing those beds as I write. We will try to snap and share a com­plete fam­i­ly pho­to next week.

Fos­ter moth­er Maria and her 2 new chil­dren. Belucha is 10 and in the 5th grade and Helder is 6 and in preschool.

GROUND BREAKING FOR HOUSE #7 BEGAN MONDAY

Our 12-man con­struc­tion team made short work of mov­ing Fos­ter Moth­er Ben­di­ta and her 4 orphaned chil­dren into House #6 at 5 a.m. Mon­day. This was nec­es­sary so they could destroy the mud hut in which they lived so it can be replaced by House #7.  

We tem­porar­i­ly left the house and bath­room roofs in place until the foun­da­tion is in place. That par­tial­ly pro­tects the foun­da­tion from heavy rains, and gives the work­ers a place to get out of the rain and the sun, when it decides to show its face. The 2 roofs will be torn down before the walls go up.

Foun­da­tion for House #7 almost completed.

RAINY SEASON FOUNDATIONS are a bit trick­i­er to build com­pared to dry sea­son foun­da­tions.  Instead of dig­ging out the WHOLE FOUNDATION at once, the team must dig a por­tion, and then fill it imme­di­ate­ly with gran­ite rock and cement, leav­ing space for the 8 rebar and cement “pil­lars” that will secure the cross walls.  If today’s rain holds off, the team will com­plete the ground lev­el foun­da­tion by noon.

ZITO WAITING FOR RSA DOCTOR’S RECOMMENDATION

Sad­ly, Zito’s infec­tion is the dread­ed PSEUDAMONIS AUREALIS BACTERIA.  As an X‑ICU nurse, we use to joke that you can’t kill it with a  stick, much less with antibi­otics. RESISTANT TO MOST ANTIBIOTICS, we now wait for the Ortho­pe­dic Dr. in RSA to give us his rec­om­men­da­tion on how to pro­ceed.  I’ll keep you updat­ed as I know more.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRAYERS AS WE FAITHFULLY MARCH INTO 2020 WITH THE JOY OF THE LORD AS OUR STRENGTH!

BLESSINGS,

BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE

AND THE BALAMA STAFF

Pho­to extra:

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