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FOOD DISTRIBUTIONS MOVING AT RAPID PACE

The hot and dry months are the “hunger months” in Mozam­bique, (Sep­tem­ber to Novem­ber) as water is too scarce to grow any­thing but the small­est of gar­dens with left over water from dish­es and wash­ing clothes. Since the 2 cyclones hit ear­li­er this year, the lost crops area is esti­mat­ed to cov­er over 3,000 square miles (7,800 sq. km). UNICEF has iden­ti­fied and is work­ing to alle­vi­ate mal­nu­tri­tion in 160,000+ chil­dren under 5 years of age who live in the 2 storm struck areas.

Granny and her 2 orphaned grand­chil­dren receiv­ing your love gifts.

The NORTHERN CYCLONE struck our area destroy­ing many fields in the Dis­trict of Melu­co, where our pro­gram sup­ports 515+ orphans.

THANKS TO YOUR LOVE GIFTS, we are able to pre­vent mal­nu­tri­tion in the 515+ Melu­co orphans we sup­port, which includes the Ele­phant Village.

Orphans look­ing on as bean ration is measured.

Manuel and his 2 man crew made 3 very gru­elling 9‑hour dri­ves to Melu­co this week, car­ry­ing a total of 13 TONS of life-sav­ing corn  for dis­tri­b­u­tion. This next week they will do the Octo­ber corn and bean dis­tri­b­u­tion to secure the 115 orphans liv­ing in the Ele­phant Vil­lage until Novem­ber. Their last load next week will be to take more corn to the Melu­co ware­house for those 400 orphans.

3 old­er orphans came with granny to help car­ry their food

Over the last 5 days, Cape­na and his 9‑man crew dis­trib­uted 12.5 TONS of corn and beans to 577 orphans and wid­ows in the Bala­ma area. Lord, keep these trucks rolling!

AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS POSSIBLE SO THAT VULNERABLE CHILDREN HAVE THE LIFE-SAVING FOOD THEY NEED.

ANNUAL FAMILY PHOTO OF OUR HAPPY RESIDENTS

Our fam­i­ly is grow­ing as we now have 48 chil­dren in per­ma­nent res­i­dence. FOURTEEN of these chil­dren are under the age of 5, so it does keep our Fos­ter Moth­ers hopping!

Our annu­al Bala­ma ‘fam­i­ly photo’. 

Keep the school-age chil­dren in prayer as they are in the final 2 months of this school year. Many will be tak­ing final exams by end of October.

HOUSE #6 NEARLY FINISHED

The fin­ish­ing work on all our orphans homes takes time.

Build­ing con­crete kitchen sinks, eat­ing tables, clothes wash­ing areas, bath­rooms and the sep­tic tanks that go with it all takes longer than rais­ing the house walls.  Our team com­pletes 1 phase,  then has to let the cement dry and “cure” before the next phase can be done. It is a tedious job, and time consuming. 

Final phase is paint­ing it all in bright colors.

But we are hap­py to announce that ALL cement work will be com­plet­ed this com­ing week, leav­ing only the doors and wid­ows to be mount­ed and screened before the inspec­tors can be invit­ed to come. At this time, we have request­ed the inspec­tors come as soon as pos­si­ble after the elec­tions which take place in mid-October.

If all falls into place, we will be able to open house #6 in Novem­ber. TWO Fos­ter Moth­ers have been hired, and are now in train­ing at our oth­er fos­ter homes. Four chil­dren are in wait­ing for this home, and are now liv­ing in a tem­po­rary house near­by with one of our fos­ter mothers.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING THIS POSSIBLE!

BLESSINGS TO YOU ALL!

BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE

AND THE BALAMA STAFF