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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“
DATE: OCTOBER 10, 2020
 
FABULOUS FIVE MOVE INTO NEW HOME

Wednes­day, the Fab­u­lous Five Teenagers hap­pi­ly moved into their new home. Our staff helped them extend mos­qui­to nets over their new beds, and get all their belong­ings moved to the new site. You can see many of the gifts 4 of the teens showed off on mov­ing day.

New home, many gifts for Child Head­ed house­hold.
 
Four­teen year old Fer­nan­do is not in the pho­to as he left ear­ly that a.m. to vis­it a friend, not real­iz­ing it was time to move them. Fer­nan­do returned late after­noon to find his old house desert­ed and every­one gone. Neigh­bors told him where to find his fam­i­ly. Shocked, he came to my house and apol­o­gized (rare occur­rence around here) to me for not being around to help with the move. After 2 days, the Fab­u­lous Five are well set­tled in and enjoy­ing their new home.
 
THANK YOU TO THEIR MONTHLY SPONSOR, AS WELL AS THOSE WHO CONTRIBUTED “start-up gifts” so these young adults could have the basic items need­ed to begin a much bet­ter life.

Din­ha, the 17 year old “head of house­hold”,  seemed very relieved that Anna, our Children’s Direc­tor, lives so close by.  Being respon­si­ble for 4 oth­er teens is a BIG respon­si­bil­i­ty as many of you know.
 

THE NORM IN OUR LIVES

Each week we receive an aver­age of 1 or 2 babies into our for­mu­la 
pro­gram. New orphan chil­dren come in about twice a month because their Mom has died from some dis­ease or dur­ing child­birth. CV-19 is not a prob­lem in this area, PTL!
 

A wid­owed aunt with her 4 chil­dren and her sis­ter’s 4 orphans.  Your gifts tru­ly make a dif­fer­ence in the lives of this fam­i­ly.​

This week, Granny Assum­ia (Ah-soo-mia) report­ed to Social Ser­vices that she need­ed food help for her 2 orphaned Grand­chil­dren. One year old Jonas and 3 year old Muamede (Moo-ah-med‑y) hap­pi­ly left wear­ing new clothes and car­ry­ing a bag full of food that your love gifts pro­vid­ed.
 

Granny Assum­ia holds 1 year old Jonas with 3 year old Muamede at her side.​
 
The before and after pho­tos are shown here. I want­ed to show you the trans­for­ma­tion that takes place when they put on new clothes. Don’t be fooled by the lack of smiles for in this cul­ture, a smile means you are not tak­ing the gift seri­ous­ly. But know they were super hap­py for Muamede hap­pi­ly skipped off as his Granny head­ed them towards home.
 

Your gifts pro­vide new clothes for these 2 lit­tle boys.​
 

RAINY SEASON COMING EARLY.
 
The Octo­ber food give-outs were com­plet­ed today for more than 1,000 orphaned chil­dren in 22 remote vil­lages. Due to dark clouds hov­er­ing over Bala­ma all week with only mid­day sun­shine, our staff “took God’s hint” know­ing this means the rains will soon begin.
 

Food give-outs keeps orphans/grannies healthy.​
 
Novem­ber is seed give-out time, so our plan is not to wait, but push on with the final food dis­tri­b­u­tion start­ing next Wednes­day. If heavy rains hit before the 1st 2 weeks of Novem­ber, we won’t be able to get to many of the vil­lages as the roads are hard packed clay. Clay and water make for slip­pery mud roads which our trucks can’t nego­ti­ate. Even 4‑wheel-dri­ve pick­ups strug­gle in some of the deep­er mud holes.
 
But I am hap­py to announce that for the 1st time EVER, Bala­ma has a paved road all the way through our town that con­nects it to oth­er parts of the Province/State!Rainy sea­son will no longer be a major chal­lenge if we need to go to the Cap­i­tal of Pem­ba between Decem­ber and March. 
 
BECAUSE YOU CARE,  1000’S OF CHILDREN NOW KNOW THAT JESUS LOVES THEM.
 
THANK YOU FOR MAKING THAT POSSIBLE. 
 
BLESSINGS 
BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE 
AND THE BALAMA STAFF