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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“
DATE: SEPTEMBER 26, 2020
 
CHILD-HEADED HOUSEHOLD NEEDS OUR HELP

MEET THE COUSINS WHO BECAME A FAMILY:  (L‑R) Celi­na-12, Fer­nan­do-13, Mani­ho-16, Nionel­da-14, Dean­ha-17. Eleven years ago, 2 sis­ters died with­in a week of each oth­er. One died in child­birth and the oth­er for unknown rea­sons. Each sis­ter had 5 small chil­dren who went to live with their Grand­moth­er, (10 kids in all). Need­less to say, Granny need­ed food and cloth­ing help, so that is how these chil­dren came to be in our orphan food pro­gram.
 

The Fan­tas­tic Five, youngest to old­est, hap­pi­ly wear­ing their new out­fits.

Their Grand­moth­er passed away a year ago, so her old­est daugh­ter came to live with the remain­ing 5 chil­dren. This Aunt passed away from can­cer 3 weeks ago, leav­ing the 5 young teenagers with no adult in the house­hold. In tears, the old­est girl, Dean­ha, came to ask our help, as their mud hut is very old, and not in great con­di­tion.

Our staff decid­ed the best thing to do was to buy a house near our mis­sion so our Children’s Direc­tor, Anna, could be close by to assist and guide them. Our head brick lay­er knew of a mud hut for sale just 3 hous­es away from our Children’s Director’s home, which places it with­in 100 yards/meters of our Orphan­age Water Well. The loca­tion of this home couldn’t have been any bet­ter! I con­sid­er it a Bless­ing from the Lord!
 

Two of our Life Skills stu­dents build­ing the bam­boo fence in front of new orphans home.​

The house need­ed a new roof, and basic upgrades like a cement floor, an out­door bath­room, a kitchen and a shad­ed out­door eat­ing area as there is no shade at all around this house. All this was eas­i­ly built dur­ing this last month by our brick lay­ers and car­pen­ters.
 

The Fan­tas­tic Five’s new home, still under con­struc­tion.​

The pho­to shows the house TODAY in the final con­struc­tion stages, as we plan to move the chil­dren into it next week, once final paint­ing is done.

THANKS TO YOUR GENEROUS SUPPORT, THESE CHILDREN WILL BE SAFE UNDER OUR CARE, AND BE ABLE TO CONTINUE THEIR EDUCATION WITH OUR HELP.

SPONSORS ARE NEEDED to help them with their basic needs.

A TOTAL GIFT OF $60/MONTH PROVIDES ALL 5 CHILDREN WITH THEIR BASIC NEEDS (clothes, shoes,  school uniforms/materials, and a week­ly allowance to buy meat, fish, and veg­eta­bles). Their basic food is pro­vid­ed through our orphan
food pro­gram.

Please email me if you would like to pro­vide all or any part of this Love Gift to these brave young teens.


CONSTRUCTION RESUMES ON ORPHAN HOUSE #7!

With restric­tions eas­ing nation­wide, our team was giv­en per­mis­sion to com­plete Orphan House #7. This is much need­ed since oth­er 6 orphan homes are near­ly full.
 

ORPHAN HOME #7 with ring beam in place.​

The ring beam is going up as I write, so as soon as the walls are
com­plet­ed, the roof should be built with­in the next 3 weeks. We are expect­ing the rainy sea­son EARLY in Novem­ber, so it is essen­tial to
the com­ple­tion of the house that the roof be on before those rains
begin. The rest of the work can be done as long as the roof is on.
This is cut­ting it close, but NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE WITH GOD!

OUR HEARTFELT THANKS TO THE DONORS OF HOUSE #7 FOR THEIR PATIENCE DURING THIS UNEXPECTED 6 MONTH DELAY.

BLESSINGS,
BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE
AND THE BALAMA STAFF