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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“
DATE: OCTOBER 14, 2023
 
 
BBC MOTORBIKE TEAM GIVES A HELPING HAND
 
Granny Rud­die (Roo-dy) and her 2 orphaned grand­sons, ages 6 and 7, live in a remote vil­lage that is a 1‑hour motor­bike ride from our mis­sion. No oth­er fam­i­ly mem­bers exist, and Granny Rud­die is not strong in her legs (the rea­son she is sit­ting in the pho­to).

The BBC rou­tine­ly takes food to her and 2 oth­er orphan fam­i­lies in this vil­lage. When the BBC team saw the con­di­tion of Granny Ruddie’s roof, Car­l­i­tos took pho­tos to include in his request for funds to repair it. 
 

Granny and 2 orphaned grand­sons in front of their mud hut
 
Only the BBC goes to this area via their motor­bikes, so that team of 4 men will repair the roof. They have orga­nized to buy the need­ed grass and bam­boo mate­ri­als from local vil­lagers in that area. Total cost to buy the mate­ri­als is only $90/R1,620. So lit­tle can do so much to help oth­ers in need.
 
THANK YOU, FOR YOUR LOVE GIFTS WILL MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR US TO HELP THOSE WHO TRULY NEED IT.
 

WEDNESDAY WAS VOTING DAY!
 
The ever-grow­ing Bala­ma town will be des­ig­nat­ed a “city” in Jan­u­ary, 2024, so the local res­i­dents will deter­mine who will be May­or of Bala­ma.  Since our fos­ter moth­ers are essen­tial work­ers, they can­not leave their chil­dren unless some­one takes their place.  Sev­er­al staff and reserve moth­ers stepped in for a few hours while the moth­ers were tak­en by our 3 dri­vers to vote in their des­ig­nat­ed loca­tions.  Pho­to ID’s are required for all vot­ers, so our Dri­vers checked that every­one had theirs before leav­ing our mis­sion base. Once the first group of moth­ers were back, then those who stayed behind went to vote. 

My appre­ci­a­tion goes out to our 3 dri­vers who shuf­fled the moth­ers back and forth to the vot­ing cen­ters.  A perk for the Dri­vers is that they were assigned to take moth­ers to the vot­ing loca­tion where they were sup­posed to vote. All our staff were able to vote, so it went well. Since our 19 tod­dlers in Hous­es 6 and 7 know our staff and the reserve moth­ers, they stayed calm and played as usu­al, PTL! Not an easy thing to accom­plish with that many lit­tle ones! 
 
Fea­tured in the pho­to is Fati­ma, Assis­tant Children’s Direc­tor, hold­ing Madeli­na, and Reserve Moth­er Mari­amo hold­ing wide eyed Orlen­cia.
  

Sub­sti­tute moth­ers step in to love on our babies while the Fos­ter Moth­ers went to vote
 
Every­one dress­es up to go vote! It is a big thing to vote here, as that priv­i­lege has only been avail­able to the pub­lic for about 20 years. It will be a week or 2 before the paper bal­lots are tal­lied and the results are known.
 

DINO TAKES A DIVE
 
Tues­day, while play­ing ball in his phys­i­cal edu­ca­tion class, dorm stu­dent Dino slipped while try­ing to block a ball, injur­ing his left wrist. The school took him to the hos­pi­tal for treat­ment, which is just a short dis­tance from where the acci­dent hap­pened. Turns out it is a bad sprain of his wrist, so the hos­pi­tal staff splint­ed it for com­fort and pro­tec­tion for 15 days. No more soc­cer for a few weeks, but Dino still man­aged a smile when I took his pho­to.
 

Dino gives me a grin, even though he has to sit on the side­lines for a few weeks
 
PLEASE KEEP US IN YOUR PRAYERS AS WE KEEP YOU AND ISRAEL IN OURS.
 
BLESSINGS,
BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE
AND THE BALAMA STAFF