JESUS LOVES THE LITTLE BABIES Over the last 2 weeks our staff received 4 calls from the local hos­pi­tal for milk assis­tance to infants who lost their moth­ers at birth. We glad­ly take the need­ed milk, baby bot­tle, and large bot­tled water to the fam­i­ly in need, teach­ing them how to mix the milk and care for the infant. They then join our week­ly weigh-in in of infants to receive milk for­mu­la for the infant.  YOUR LOVE GIFTS PROVIDE WHAT IS NEEDED SO THAT THIS PROGRAM CAN SAVE BABIES IN BOTH BALAMA AND MELUCO DISTRICTS.

One of the tiny new­borns we assist­ed a fam­i­ly with this week

A real cutey that we assist­ed after his Mom died at the local hos­pi­tal. Our infant for­mu­la pro­gram saves at least 50 infants per year.

THEY FOUND A NEED AND FILLED IT! I met these 2 young boys last week as they went door to door sell­ing their “bush brooms” for pen­nies. These young­sters found a need and met it, for every home uses these brooms dai­ly to sweep the ground out­side their homes. I salute their moti­va­tion, for instead of walk­ing the streets get­ting into trou­ble, they used their ener­gy to start their own lit­tle busi­ness. I eager­ly sup­port young­sters who take this road in life, so invit­ed them to bring their brooms to our office.

The 2 very young busi­ness­men with their bush brooms.

Not only did I buy the brooms they had that day, I placed an order for 20 more. With 7 homes need­ing brooms, this real­ly helped us out, too. They left with mon­ey in hand and a super smile on their faces! (FYI: they were fast, for they returned the next day with anoth­er load of brooms.) NOTE: These brooms are made from a plant that grows wild in the fields around Bala­ma. It takes time and ener­gy to find them and strip off the leaves, mak­ing them into the prod­uct you see in the pho­to. We sup­port the locals by meet­ing our needs by buy­ing from the young and the elderly/handicapped alike.

WIDOW WITH 3 CHILDREN BLESSED WITH A NEW HOME Wid­owed 2 years ago, this woman lost her mud hut in a freak rain­storm that hit in Octo­ber. Her hut had been bad­ly dam­aged in the pre­vi­ous rainy sea­son, and this out-of-sea­son rain storm fin­ished it off. Our Pas­tor Gito heads up our “HELP A WIDOW PROGRAM”, so he imme­di­ate­ly set to work get­ting church mem­bers to make bricks. He had less than 7 weeks to build a new mud hut before the rainy sea­son hits this area around the end of Novem­ber. As you can see, it is well on its way to being a strong home for this sin­gle-par­ent fam­i­ly who would oth­er­wise be homeless.

Wid­ow with 3 chil­dren work­ing along side the church mem­bers build­ing her new home.

This grate­ful fam­i­ly will have a safe, well con­struct­ed mud hut before the rains start in a few weeks.

THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU FOR MAKING IT POSSIBLE TO HELP THOSE IN DESPERATE NEED OF MUD HUT REPAIRS.  BLESSINGS, BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE AND THE BALAMA STAFF