ROSELDA BATTLES MALARIA AGAIN In April, Rosel­da, 5.5 months old, once again start­ed with severe irri­tabil­i­ty and a high fever. She was giv­en oral treat­ment but 3 days after that treat­ment end­ed, the fever and oth­er symp­toms returned, mean­ing she has resis­tant malar­ia. Qui­nine, the strongest oral med­ica­tion was giv­en, and we thought the dis­ease was gone. Then 7 days after the Qui­nine treat­ment, all the symp­toms came back with a greater force. She was hos­pi­tal­ized for IV treat­ment. It took 2 days before she stopped cry­ing at inter­vals because she felt so bad. I real­ly felt for her, as it is hard on a baby who has no way to under­stand what is going on. As of Wednes­day this week, Roselda’s lab test showed NO MALARIA, PTL! She was released and is now back home with us.

Baby Rosel­da released from hospital.

This lit­tle one seems to have lit­tle immu­ni­ty to dis­eases, so she needs divine help. We are giv­ing her all the vit­a­min sup­ple­ments she is allowed at her age, and pray­ing for her dai­ly. Please keep Baby Rosel­da in your prayers, as there is no oth­er pow­er greater than our Lord’s heal­ing pow­er! CONSTRUCTION OF COMPLEX 8 MOVES FORWARD As we anx­ious­ly await the end of May when food buy­ing will open, our con­struc­tion team is mak­ing great progress on Com­plex 8 that will house our ever-grow­ing fam­i­ly of orphans. This week the roofs went on to the 2 small hous­es where the fos­ter moth­ers will sleep. This takes coor­di­na­tion between the car­pen­ters and the brick lay­ers, as each roof must be imme­di­ate­ly secured to pre­vent wind damage.

Car­pen­ters and brick­lay­ers work togeth­er to put roof­ing frame­work into place.

The car­pen­ters com­plete the tin roof, then the brick lay­ers step in with bricks and mor­tar to block the wind from get­ting under the roof. If wind gets under the roof, it can tear off the tin sheets with its pow­er­ful lift­ing effect.

These truss­es are sol­id wood and very heavy.

Once food buy­ing begins in a few weeks for the 100 TONS of beans we must buy in order to feed over 1,500 orphans and wid­ows, all con­struc­tion will stop. Food buy­ing is an intense pro­gram that takes our ENTIRE FAMILY of work­ers chip­ping in so that all can flow in a quick and orga­nized man­ner. PLEASE KEEP US ALL IN YOUR PRAYERS, AS MAY, JUNE, AND JULY are intense labor months for all of us as we move at least 500 TONS of beans, corn, rice, peanuts, etc. BY HAND. Not an easy job for any of us. BLESSINGS, BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE AND THE BALAMA STAFF