NEW BICYCLES FOR BALAMA BBC A BIG BLESSING from a very gen­er­ous donor has pro­vid­ed us with 4 new bicy­cles for the 4‑man BBC team. This team works with the chil­dren who live with­in 5 miles of Bala­ma town. Their old bicy­cles were so worn out from trav­el­ing an esti­mat­ed 1000 miles/1,667km since 2020, that repair­ing them was becom­ing very difficult.

4 very hap­py chil­dren’s Pastors!

With new wheels, the team left today with big smiles on their faces. These 4 men teach Bible sto­ries to about 400 chil­dren a day, depend­ing on the size of the vil­lages. A BIG THANK YOU TO OUR BICYCLE DONOR FOR KEEPING THIS TEAM ROLLING!

CORN PROCESSING TEAM TRAVELS TO MELUCO Load­ing our 7‑ton truck in the cold rain was not a fun task. June and July are the COLD SEASON months in Mozam­bique, with tem­per­a­tures at 50°F/13°C each night and bare­ly hit­ting 70°F/25°C in the day­time. That is VERY COLD for these peo­ple who have lit­tle to no warm cloth­ing, and are used to tem­per­a­tures above 95°F/35°C. But our team man­aged it on time as the rains slowed to a light driz­zle. The cold months bring occa­sion­al rains, with the rain water feel­ing like it came out of a refrig­er­a­tor! BRRRRR!

Corn team work­ing in a fine driz­zle to cov­er their equip­ment need­ed in Meluco.

Each year, our Melu­co Dis­trict site man­ag­er, Syl­vai, buys 600 sacks of local corn in the Melu­co Dis­trict for the 315 orphans need­ing assis­tance there. That’s about all this area pro­duces that the vil­lagers are will­ing to sell. Then our 7‑ton truck with its 4‑man team loads up all the equip­ment need­ed, and helps them pre­pare the corn for long-term stor­age in the small ware­house we have there. This is a 4‑day process, as it takes one day of trav­el each way just to get there and back!  The team spends 2 days orga­niz­ing the corn, and get­ting it prop­er­ly stacked in the ware­house. These 600 sacks will last the orphans through Decem­ber. In the mean­time, our Bala­ma team buys the remain­ing 400 sacks they need for Jan­u­ary to May, stor­ing them in Bala­ma. The 7‑ton truck will trans­port those 400 sacks in 5 loads in Octo­ber and Novem­ber when there is room for them in the Melu­co warehouse.

INFANT ORPHANS KEEP ROLLING IN Infants who are orphaned just after their birth are allowed to join our INFANT FORMULA PROGRAM spon­sored by a church in New Jer­sey. These infants would per­ish with­out our assis­tance, as one can of milk for­mu­la is way too expen­sive for most fam­i­lies liv­ing in this area. It is nor­mal to receive 1 or 2 infants each week.  We have two cat­e­gories of fam­i­lies that we assist via the INFANT FORMULA PROGAM: 1.     Orphaned infants who have an Aunt or Granny to care for them. 2.     Moth­ers who didn’t pro­duce breast milk after giv­ing birth.This week we received 2 infants. One from each of these cat­e­gories as shown, below.

Orphaned infant with her Aunt who will now care for her.

New moth­er with­out milk in her breasts.

THANK YOU TO THOSE IN NEW JERSEY WHO GAVE SO THAT THESE INFANTS HAVE A CHANCE AT LIFE. BLESSINGS, BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE AND THE BALAMA TEAM