DINO IS HOME! Noth­ing but a God mir­a­cle, as Dino has been at LEOPARD HOUSE for crit­i­cal chil­dren, OFF OXYGEN, since last Sat­ur­day, and is doing as well as can be expect­ed. The Dr. told us that his breath­ing is dif­fer­ent from oth­er chil­dren, so we have to judge him by what is nor­mal for him.

Dino after 7 days with out sup­ple­men­tal oxy­gen. Breath­ing with­out dis­tress and eat­ing well.

He is eat­ing and drink­ing well, so now it is a “wait and see” time for us. So far every­one is AMAZED at his progress. KEEP YOUR PRAYERS COMING FOR THIS LITTLE ONE! BABY JOJO JOINS OUR FAMILY At Thursday’s weigh in for infant orphans in our INFANT FORMULA PROGRAM, baby boy JOJO was brought in very sick by his father and mater­nal grandmother.

Baby Jojo in hos­pi­tal. Much improved after 24 hours of IV medication.

It is unusu­al for a father to be con­cerned over his orphaned baby after the infant is in the care of the grand­moth­er. How­ev­er, the grand­moth­er was strug­gling to cope with a very sick Jojo, so his father eager­ly turned him over to us. At the hos­pi­tal, he was diag­nosed with bronchial pneu­mo­nia plus malar­ia! A dou­ble wham­my, as this lit­tle boy is only 5.5 kg/12 lbs. at 7 months of age.

BABY JOJO as we were admit­ting him to hos­pi­tal on Thurs­day. Not a hap­py boy, and with reason!

His breath­ing is bet­ter on Fri­day morn­ing, and he is final­ly eat­ing after 2 IV malar­ia treat­ments. When we admit­ted him, he refused any nour­ish­ment by mouth. Malar­ia can real­ly destroy your appetite. Please keep him in your prayers, as we need him to over­come both these dis­eases in the next 7 days.  STATE DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL SERVICES VISITS OUR CHILDREN Our Provential/State Direc­tor of Social Ser­vices came out from Pem­ba to vis­it our chil­dren, and check that their doc­u­ments were in order. And they found all in order, as our office team does an excel­lent job of keep­ing the children’s records up to date. She inter­act­ed with our moth­ers and the chil­dren, leav­ing the moth­ers with sin­cere words of encour­age­ment to con­tin­ue their great work.As you can see in the pho­to, the chil­dren took advan­tage of her talk­ing to the moth­ers, and grabbed their toys which are very impor­tant to them.

Proven­tial Direc­tor vis­it­ing Lion House staff and children.

THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR PRAYERS FOR ALL OF US! It has been a busy week, but the corn was in the barn by Tues­day. The Inspec­tors came on Wednes­day, and then we had the new baby arrive on Thursday.Needless to say, we look for­ward to a rest­ful week­end, as on MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY next week, 3000 sacks of rice will arrive at our barns for weigh­ing and stor­age. With El Nino on the way, we are stor­ing 2 years of rice in its hull to curb the pos­si­bil­i­ty of a low rice har­vest next year.Rain lev­els are expect­ed to be reduced by 50% in our area. So, this is of a great con­cern as to how it will affect the har­vest. WE SERVE A GOD OF MIRACLES, SO WE ARE EXPECTING A MIRACLE as corn and beans will only keep for 1 year in stor­age.  BLESSINGS, BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE AND THE BALAMA STAFF