BABY VICTORIA NOW HOME AFTER 7 DAYS IN HOSPITAL! Baby girl Vic­to­ria over­came the diar­rhea that almost end­ed her life, and now weighs 3.4 kg/7.5 lbs. This is AMAZING as most infants don’t bounce back as fast after such a severe ill­ness. Released on Wednes­day this week, she is now being kept in iso­la­tion until she reach­es 5kg/11 lbs. to pre­vent her from catch­ing any res­pi­ra­to­ry ill­ness­es that are float­ing around. THANK YOU for your prayers for this lit­tle one.

Baby Vic­to­ria is always sleep­ing. We are just hap­py she is home.

Vic­to­ria nev­er suck­led her mother’s milk, so she didn’t receive the immune build­ing colostrum that is so essen­tial for any new­born. I will keep you post­ed on her progress as she has already shown us how well she can eat and gain weight in the one week she was in the hos­pi­tal. It is amaz­ing to see how the heal­ing pow­er of the Lord Jesus, along with good food and lov­ing care by one of our best fos­ter moth­ers, can make a dif­fer­ence in an infant’s life. It takes a vil­lage, so keep your prayers com­ing for Vic­to­ria to grow strong in the com­ing weeks. PREPARING LAND FOR A NEW TODDLERS’ DORM Thanks to sev­er­al dona­tions we are now able to start the bad­ly need­ed tod­dlers’ dorm next door to our present con­struc­tion for the school age chil­dren. With over 20 preschool­ers, and 13 two-year-old chil­dren grow­ing up fast, these 2 large dorm rooms are need­ed as soon as pos­si­ble. Dorm plans are for 2 large rooms mea­sur­ing 6m wide x 17 m long (19.5 ft. wide X 55.25 ft. long). We are burst­ing at the seams, but always man­age to squeeze in 1 more baby in an emer­gency. How­ev­er, that is get­ting hard­er to do. With phase 1 of the new school age com­plex 90% com­plet­ed, it is time to pre­pare the land next door for the new tod­dler dorm.

Our 5 man team cut­ting down the scrub tree so our new tod­dler dorm can be built.

Cut­ting down a large scrub tree that was in our way was the first step. Cut­ting the tree was the easy part, but it took 2 days to get the esti­mat­ed 250/550 lb. stump out of the ground. Remem­ber, we have no chain­saws, so it was all done with 5 strong men, an axe and a few machetes (pan­gas). I will keep you updat­ed as we progress.

Esti­mat­ed 500 lb. trunk. Took all our guys to move it out of the hole.

Our pri­or­i­ty is to com­plete phase 1 for the school age chil­dren at the same time we start dig­ging the foun­da­tion for phase 2, the toddler’s dorm. Keep us in your prayers, as we push ahead at full speed to bring this dorm into ser­vice as soon as possible.The goal is for ear­ly 2027, depend­ing on El Nino and the nor­mal rainy sea­son con­struc­tion delays. Bless­ings, BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE AND THE BALAMA STAFF