LITTLE DISCIPLES CLASS RECEIVE NEW LEARNING MATERIALS Our Lit­tle Dis­ci­ples class is for our chil­dren ages 3 to 5 years. Its pur­pose is to pre­pare them for 1st grade by learn­ing Por­tuguese through song, and grasp­ing “how to learn”. Our Assis­tant Children’s Direc­tor, Fati­ma, teach­es them basic num­bers up to 10, as well as the alpha­bet, and Bible Sto­ries. While fetch­ing my Pass­port in Maputo last week, I had 3 hours in which to find and buy new learn­ing mate­ri­als that are not avail­able in our area. Bun­nies are always hop­ping around, so thought I’d make this trip ben­e­fi­cial for the chil­dren. Flash­cards of 10 dif­fer­ent sub­jects can be used in both the Lit­tle Dis­ci­ples Class, and with our 1st to 3rd graders. I also found 5 children’s books IN PORTUGUESE that will broad­en their horizons.

Lit­tle Dis­ci­ples enjoy­ing the new num­ber flashcards.

Watch the chil­dren repeat­ing their num­ber les­son at this YouTube link: https://youtube.com/shorts/NCiQtHm-XMs?feature=share

Our goal is to help all our chil­dren learn as much as they can dur­ing their young devel­op­men­tal phase. I don’t know who was hap­pi­est about my find, the teach­ers or the stu­dents. The adults have nev­er seen books and flash­cards like this, so they are just as fas­ci­nat­ed as the chil­dren with their new learn­ing mate­ri­als.YOUR LOVE GIFTS MAKE THIS POSSIBLE, SO ALL OF US SEND OUT THANKS! CLEAN WATER FOR MELUCO CHILDREN! A request from Melu­co Dis­trict sent our water well repair team to that area with many spares your Love Gifts pro­vid­ed. The pho­tos tell the sto­ry of how they repaired 16 bro­ken wells with these spares, pro­vid­ing 1000’s of chil­dren with clean water.

Manuel pulling the pump rods on a well.

Suc­cess­ful repair brings clean water and lots of joy to all in this vil­lage! Click the link to see the YouTube video.https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4RCbrU1ZnUM

Manuel and vil­lagers pulling a bro­ken water well pipe.

All this is pos­si­ble because YOU CARE that the chil­dren in our area have clean water, some­thing most peo­ple take for grant­ed. CLEAN WATER EQUALS HEALTHY PEOPLE. Diar­rhea and Cholera is caused by drink­ing con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed water, and is still the # 2 killer in our area (2nd only to malar­ia). THANK YOU FOR MAKING THESE WATER WELL REPAIRS POSSIBLE! BLESSINGS, BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE AND THE BALAMA STAFF