CIS PARTY BECAME A BIRTHDAY PARTY! Lua­na, who lives in Pem­ba City was cel­e­brat­ing her 18th birth­day last Sat­ur­day, and want­ed to share it with our chil­dren. Her moth­er works at the local Graphite Mine, and orga­nized this as a total sur­prise for our chil­dren and staff. Com­plete with 2 large Birth­day Cakes and lit­tle gift bags for the chil­dren, this par­ty was a blast! The chil­dren had their main meal, and were sur­prised with Luana’s Birth­day cake for dessert. The moth­er had some of our chil­dren assist her in cut­ting the cake.

Cut­ting the cake at the party.

Enjoy­ing cake and gift bag.

Group par­ty at par­ty’s end.

The wind was so strong that light­ing the sparkler type can­dles was almost impos­si­ble. Didn’t mat­ter to our chil­dren, as they were super hap­py to get a deli­cious cake for dessert. THANK YOU, LUANA, FOR SHARING YOUR LOVE WITH OUR CHILDREN. THEY ALL WENT HOME WITH BIG SMILES ON THEIR FACES. CHILDREN CRUNCHING CARROTS THIS WEEK The local car­rot crop is final­ly har­vest­ed, and our sup­pli­er brought his first har­vest load straight to our door.Our cur­rent 2‑year-olds don’t know about car­rots as they were too young last year to eat them. This year they were our first stop for dis­tri­b­u­tion, as I want­ed to see their reac­tion to this yum­my veg­gie. Since they nev­er tast­ed them before, they weren’t impressed. Oh well. Hope­ful­ly next week when the 2nd car­rot load is avail­able, they will be more keen.

Some of the ostrich house chil­dren see car­rots for first time.

SURAIA ADMITTED TO HOSPITAL  Sura­ia, now a year old, was birthed last year in a farm­ing field just before her moth­er passed away. She has been liv­ing in the Leop­ard House for crit­i­cal infants ever since.It was a big sur­prise when she spiked a very high fever of 102F/40C on Mon­day. It amazed me that she didn’t have a febrile seizure with that high of a tem­per­a­ture. Every­one thought it must be malar­ia, so she was tak­en to the hos­pi­tal and giv­en IV Parac­eta­mol to bring it down while we wait­ed on lab tests.  Her Malar­ia test was neg­a­tive, but she had a res­pi­ra­to­ry infec­tion. Her tem­per­a­ture was nor­mal the next a.m., so she was released and ordered to con­tin­ue treat­ment for her res­pi­ra­to­ry infec­tion at the Leop­ard House for our youngest infants.

Baby Sura­ia treat­ed at hos­pi­tal for high fever.

WE THANK ALL OF YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED PRAYERS FOR OUR CHILDREN, AS THIS EPISODE WITH SURAIA STUNNED US ALL. The dev­il comes to steal, kill, and destroy, (John 10:10), so we ask that you keep all of us cov­ered in prayer, to pre­vent ill­ness­es from attack­ing our chil­dren.  BLESSINGS, BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE AND THE BALAMA STAFF