ELEPHANT VILLAGE FOOD DROP A GREAT SUCCESS!

Our truck dri­ver and 2‑man team pulled out at 2:30am on Mon­day, (17th) for it is an 8‑hour dri­ve to the Ele­phant Vil­lage. They were ful­ly loaded with 4 TONS of corn and 0.6 TONS of beans, as well as 4 cas­es of soap and 2 large bags of salt for the chil­dren. I was very hap­py that the oth­er vil­lagers respect­ed the team’s dis­tri­b­u­tion to the orphans. Our team report­ed that many mud huts with grass roofs were bad­ly dam­aged or destroyed, but that much rebuild­ing is in progress.

Hap­py fam­i­lies receiv­ing food at Ele­phant Village.

We are VERY hap­py that all the orphans are healthy although a bit under-weight. With your love gifts, they should look even bet­ter when we drop food there lat­er in July.

We hope to have cloth­ing ready for them by that time also.

Your love gifts were a big sur­prise. Nor­mal is 1st gift end of July.

Many wait patient­ly for their time to receive.

JUKO AND MONTEGA BEANS IN THE BARN!

It was a great sur­prise when 2 trucks loaded with 110 sacks of Juko (white) beans drove up to our gates on Mon­day morn­ing. A 2nd truck rolled in just behind them with the 30 sacks (1.8 TONS) of Mon­te­ga (pin­to) beans that we need­ed. None of us were expect­ing these items so soon, but were hap­py they were here!

Two farm­ers in fore­ground brought in 50 sacks of Juko beans. Help­ing local farm­ers sup­port their fam­i­lies is 1 of our top priorities.

Juko beans grow under­ground in a shell like a peanut, so they can be kept fresh­est by stor­ing them that way. Those 110 sacks were weighed and place direct­ly into our store­house. The Mon­te­ga bean must be checked for qual­i­ty and re-sacked, so our team whipped out a sack­ing chute and went to work. With their exper­tise, 30 sacks were processed and stacked in the barn with­in an hour’s time.

No chal­lenge there, since they are used to mov­ing 36 TONS/day.  (That is 720 sacks in 5 hours).

BUSH BUNNY’S CHOPPERS NEED CHECKING

For the last 2 weeks, I’ve been both­ered by a molar that made eat­ing car­rots a bit tricky. So this Bun­ny is tak­ing advan­tage of our “down time” before July food buy­ing, and will go to South Africa for a den­tal check-up on Monday.

I’ll be “back in Bala­ma” by Wednes­day next week. Please keep us all in prayer as Cape­na does dou­ble duty han­dling my “chores” while I’m away.

TOGETHER WE ARE MAKING A BIG DIFFERENCE IN 1000’S OF CHILDREN’S LIVES.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING IT POSSIBLE!

BLESSINGS,

BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE

AND THE FABULOUS BALAMA STAFF