MILAGRE IS FINALLY WALKING! After 5 weeks in a leg and waist cast due to a bro­ken femur, Mila­gre was too afraid to move his leg when the cast was removed. He was stiff and sore, so we did easy mas­sag­ing move­ments to encour­age him to bend his hip, knee, and ankle. After 7 days of scoot­ing on his tum­my, he final­ly start­ed bend­ing his knee to crawl on all fours. Then he began pulling him­self up on a chair to stand. ON TUESDAY this week, he final­ly got real­ly bold and walked inde­pen­dent­ly, as you can see in the video.

Mila­gre final­ly walks again! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7Ay6Y_Le0Ko

It is such a relief to see him walk, even though he is still hold­ing that leg stiff. I know in my heart that he will get back to “nor­mal” very soon, as he likes to run!After I turned off the phone cam­era, he walked to me and I gave him a big hug. He then smacked me on the cheek with his style of a kiss. My heart soared! After all he has been through, he is still his lov­ing self. THANK YOU for your prayers for this cute lit­tle one.

Mila­gre just before he walked over and gave me a hug and kiss.

ENCOURAGING YOUNG BOYS WITH THEIR BROOM BUSINESS  These young boys came by last Sat­ur­day after­noon to sell me their brooms. I had put out the word on Fri­day via the local ‘’grapevine” that I need­ed yard sweep­ing brooms. The lit­tle bush­es that the boys col­lect in the local fields are per­fect for leaf sweep­ing. They are free for those who have the time to go find and cut them. Then they must dry them to get the leaves off.

Our 2 broom sell­ers leave with big smiles on their faces.

This sup­ply will last us a about 2 months. The best part is see­ing these 2 boys with big smiles on their faces, because I told them I would buy more when they had them. Each broom costs 5 cents in USA mon­ey. With 7 hous­es to sup­ply with brooms, plus our mis­sion sta­tion, we always need more brooms. These plants can only be har­vest­ed in the dry sea­son, and our rainy sea­son which starts in Decem­ber, is almost here. Time to get all our sup­plies stocked up, as the rainy sea­son makes our dirt roads into mush by Jan­u­ary. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR CONTINUED PRAYERS AND LOVE GIFTS THAT MAKES SAVING CHILDREN A REALITY. BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE AND THE BALAMA STAFF