INFANT DINO STILL IN HOSPITAL This tiny boy devel­oped a cough, pos­si­bly from flu­id in his lungs, and he seems a bit weak­er as com­pared to last week. He has gained about 1 lb./500 gms, and com­plet­ed his malar­ia treat­ment, but the doc­tors decid­ed to watch him a few more days as he still needs his oxy­gen. Their con­cern is that he may have a genet­ic heart anomaly.

Dino this week is hang­ing on against tremen­dous odds.

Only time will tell, so please con­tin­ue pray­ing for Lit­tle Dino, as he tru­ly needs a mir­a­cle from Jesus in order to regain his health. EMPLOYEES FROM LOCAL GRAPHITE MINE AND CIS REHABILITATED OUR BASKETBALL COURT! Over the last 3 months our old bas­ket­ball court with its 16-year-old cement court received a facelift! The old sur­face was destroyed, and a new con­crete sur­face was laid, mak­ing it super smooth. Our old bas­ket­ball goals were serv­ing well, but these gen­er­ous men decid­ed we need­ed real­ly nice ones. They orga­nized the cement for the new court, AND had new 5mm thick glass goals (very pro­fes­sion­al) made in Maputo.

Four of the men who donat­ed much time and funds to make this hap­pen. Those goals are amazing!

A trans­port com­pa­ny donat­ed the space to have them brought up to Bala­ma. After the new iron posts were sol­id in the cement, and able to han­dle the heavy goals, (btw, it took 3 men on a scaf­fold­ing to lift them into place), they were mount­ed, mak­ing it ready for use.

Plant­i­ng the goals posts in a 4 foot cube of rock and cement.

So now our chil­dren have the first pro­fes­sion­al-look­ing court in the whole state. Our school age chil­dren will begin prac­tic­ing on it this com­ing week, as these men even brought us a real bas­ket­ball, as none were avail­able in our state.

Hang­ing the very heavy bas­ket­ball goals.

WE ARE VERY GRATEFUL TO ALL THOSE WHO CONTRIBUTED THEIR FUNDS AND TIME TO MAKE THIS DREAM A REALITY! NOTE: I per­son­al­ly am over­whelmed by the gen­eros­i­ty of all of you who send us your Love Gifts. It takes a vil­lage! Our team does the work local­ly, but that would not be pos­si­ble if it were not for YOUR HELP in pro­vid­ing the food, clothes, med­i­cines, and school mate­ri­als need­ed by the 1,500 orphans and wid­ows whom we assist. It’s not just the 66 chil­dren liv­ing with us who ben­e­fit, but the more than 1,300 chil­dren who live remote­ly with vil­lage fam­i­lies in 2 Districts/Counties. Because of YOUR LOVE GIFTS these chil­dren have a future BECAUSE YOU HAVE JESUS HEARTS. THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF OUR JESUS HEARTS FOR BEING PART OF OUR RESCUE PROGRAM. BLESSINGS, BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE AND THE BALAMA STAFF