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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“
DATE: JULY 11, 2020
 
SURPRISE PREGNANCY PRODUCES TWINS IN NEED OF FORMULA

Fri­day, July 10th, an elder­ly look­ing cou­ple walked into our mis­sion with a beau­ti­ful set of twin girls, Liana and Riana. Much to our sur­prise, these folks were the PARENTS, not the grand­par­ents with orphaned babies. The moth­er looks to be in her late 40’s so TWINS in addi­tion to this sur­prise “late life” preg­nan­cy has over­whelmed this cou­ple.
 

Twins Liana and Riana, 10 days old with par­ents.

The moth­er devel­oped nasty abscess­es on 1breast, and her 2nd breast dried up on Thurs­day, leav­ing the infants with no milk! They rushed to the hos­pi­tal on Fri­day, July 10th, look­ing for baby for­mu­la and treat­ment for the moth­er. Social Ser­vices was called in and sent them to us for for­mu­la assis­tance. These 10-day-old girls were in need of urgent sus­te­nance!

THANKS TO YOUR LOVE GIFTS, 2 baby bot­tles, 2 cans of for­mu­la, and 2 bot­tles of ster­ile water for mix­ing the for­mu­la were pro­vid­ed imme­di­ate­ly. Few real­ize how impor­tant every LOVE GIFT is, for it can mean the dif­fer­ence in life and death to new­borns. 
 

Chil­dren’s Direc­tor Anna teach­ing for­mu­la prepa­ra­tion to par­ents.
 
LIFE FOR THESE 2 LITTLE ONES WAS A MERE $15 the first week and $10/week until they are 6 months old. This cou­ple could nev­er have afford­ed even the baby bot­tles at our mar­ket. ($1.50/R25 each) 
 
THANKS FOR BEING “GOD’S SAVING GRACE” IN THESE EMERGENCY SITUATIONS.
 

BUSY WEEK BEHIND US…

Our corn barn is now full, PTL!

THE RICE CROP, “straight from the field”, is in its final week of being sun dried. Our trucks will begin fetch­ing the rice on July 20th from those farm­ers who grew it. Grow­ing and har­vest­ing rice by hand is a back break­ing job, for there are no machines to help plant or har­vest it.

We waste no funds on a “mid­dle man” when we buy food for the orphans. All our bulk food sup­plies are bought DIRECT from the farm­ers, so that they alone get the ben­e­fit of your LOVE GIFTS. For most of these farm­ers, it is the ONLY income they receive each year. It means new clothes for their chil­dren and oth­er house­hold items they need.
 
YOUR LOVE GIFTS PROVIDE A 2‑FOLD BENEFIT, 1st to the farmer’s fam­i­ly and 2nd to the orphans who receive it.

THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS ALL POSSIBLE.
 

MELUCO HERE WE COME…
 
While wait­ing for the Rice to dry this week, our 7‑ton truck and 3‑man team will take 2 loads of life-sav­ing food to the 515 orphans of Melu­co Dis­trict, 9 hours dri­ve north­east of our Bala­ma base.

TOGETHER WE ARE CHANGING MORE LIVES THAN ANY OF US CAN IMAGINE.

Per­son­al note:  I tru­ly appre­ci­at­ed the encour­ag­ing emails I received this last week. Please con­tin­ue to drop me a line when you can, as it real­ly helps dur­ing this time of iso­la­tion.
 brenda@orphansunlimted.org

BLESSINGS,
BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE
AND THE BALAMA STAFF