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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“
DATE: MARCH 4, 2023
 
 
DOUBLE THE FAMILY, DOUBLE THE NEED!
 
Aunt Angel­i­ca of Ntete Vil­lage suf­fered the loss of her sis­ter this week, leav­ing her with 3 nephews to care for! Angel­i­ca has a hus­band and a young child of her own, but now must care for 3‑month-old Jesu­al­do, as well as Evan­dro, 2, and Edi, 6. That is a big bur­den to take on dur­ing the “time of hunger” as this year’s har­vest is still 60 days down the road. THANKS TO YOUR LOVE GIFTS, Angelica’s addi­tion­al fam­i­ly mem­bers will not go hun­gry.


Aunt Angel­i­ca with her 3 new­ly adopt­ed sons

The food and for­mu­la these 3 need is avail­able through our Infant Baby For­mu­la and Food Assis­tance pro­grams for orphans. I am hap­py that these 3 boys have an Aunt and Uncle who will raise them as their own sons. The addi­tion­al food assis­tance your gifts pro­vide for these 3 lit­tle ones, means they will receive prop­er nutri­tion at their new home. Oth­er­wise, it would be NO MILK for the infant, and only star­va­tion foods for the 2 lit­tle broth­ers. When we say that every dol­lar counts towards sav­ing a life, we mean it!
 

OUR SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN GET IT TOGETHER! 
 
It is hard to get our ever-grow­ing fam­i­ly togeth­er now that school is in ses­sion.  Every grade lev­el has its own time sched­ule, so the only time the whole fam­i­ly is avail­able is on a Sat­ur­day. With the chil­dren hav­ing their phys­i­cals last Sat­ur­day, I took advan­tage and quick­ly got them togeth­er for a fam­i­ly pho­to.


Our pre-school and school age chil­dren for 2023
 
I will do the same for our infants and tod­dlers when the weath­er is a bit less windy. We left all the infants at their homes until the last minute before their phys­i­cals, as the old­er chil­dren took over 5 hours to com­plete. I didn’t want the wee wit­tle ones out in the wind that long.
 

THE NEW “HEART TROB” OF OUR TODDLER HOUSE
 
CHEBANY had a rougher start in life than most infants. At 2 weeks of age, he suf­fered aban­don­ment by his father WHILE IN HOSPITAL for severe ane­mia that need­ed an imme­di­ate trans­fu­sion, severe mal­nu­tri­tion, PLUS TB! I received a FRANTIC CALL from one of the women in our church ear­ly on Chebany’s 14th day of life, ask­ing me to inter­vene. Chebany’s father told the hos­pi­tal he was leav­ing Chebany with them and going home.  I raced to the hos­pi­tal, and Social Ser­vices met me there.  With the infant in such crit­i­cal con­di­tion, there was only 1 thing to do, ADMIT CHEBANY INTO OUR BABY HOME so we could take over his care.

Chebany’s moth­er died of TB (Tuber­cu­lo­sis) when Chebany was only 11 days old, hav­ing trans­mit­ted it to him via her cough. TB is rarely trans­mit­ted from an infant to anoth­er per­son as they don’t cough like adults do. The hos­pi­tal enrolled him in the TB med­ica­tion pro­gram as soon as it was diag­nosed, and he recov­ered com­plete­ly with only a few prob­lems dur­ing his 12 months of med­ica­tion. The TB stunt­ed his weight gain a lit­tle bit, mak­ing Chebany small for his age, but he is a pow­er­house on the play­ground! The lit­tle girls in our homes all love him, for he is quite the cutie!  
 

GOD’S OVERCOMER, CHEBANY!
 
His nick­name is ALEGRIA (JOY) due to his con­stant laugh­ter and the big smile always on his lips. CHEBANY, NOW 26 MONTHS OLD, HOLDS A SPECIAL PLACE IN MY HEART FOR HE DEFINES WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AN OVERCOMER! When you’re hav­ing a bad day, remem­ber Chebany’s sto­ry, for it will put a smile on YOUR FACE! 
 
CHEBANY NEEDS A $30/MONTH SPONSOR. Please con­tact me via email if you would like to spon­sor this very active lit­tle boy with the big smile and per­sis­tent heart.
 
BLESSINGS,
BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE
AND THE BALAMA STAFF