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FROM “BUSH BUNNY BRENDA“
DATE: SEPTEMBER 4, 2021
 
TRIPLETS GRADUATE FROM MILK PROGRAM! 
 
Born Jan­u­ary 18, 2021, these 3 husky babies are now 7 months and 3 weeks old. Triplets at this age are a rare sight around here, but this fam­i­ly, who live in a remote vil­lage over 15 miles from our mis­sion sta­tion, has done an out­stand­ing job in car­ing for these tiny tots. But, by the looks of Mel­bio (far right), “Big Tot” is more like it!
 
In the pho­to, L to R:
Boy, Mel­dio, 12.1 lbs/5.5 kgs
Girl, Mel­dia, 11.7 lbs/5.3 kgs
Boy, Mel­bio, 14.5 lbs/6.6 kgs
 
YOUR LOVE GIFTS MADE THIS POSSIBLE!
 

Mar­i­ca Triplets grad­u­ate from our milk pro­gram.​
 
THANK YOU, for the baby for­mu­la alone is one of our biggest bud­get items at over $12,000/year. We cur­rent­ly have 36 infants in the pro­gram which sad­ly con­tin­ues to increase week­ly.
 
With­out our baby for­mu­la assis­tance, there is lit­tle hope for these pre­cious lit­tle ones who lose their Moms short­ly after birth.
 
YOUR LOVE GIFTS ARE TRUE LIFE SAVERS.
 
 
FAMILY OF 5 JOINS FOOD PROGRAM 
 
It’s not just the infants who are left alone when a Mom dies. In this case, the grand­fa­ther walked his 5 grand­chil­dren to our mis­sion to ask for help. Four-month-old Ambro­sio, and his 4 sib­lings were orphaned after their moth­er died of post-malar­ia com­pli­ca­tions.  Their father died sev­er­al months ago from an unknown ill­ness. 
 

Baby Ambro­sio in arms of grand­fa­ther with his 4 grand­chil­dren.​
 
The old­est girl is 12 and will assist her grand­par­ents with the rais­ing of her sib­lings. Our prayer is that the grand­par­ents’ health will stay strong for many years, or this could become a Child Head­ed House­hold. 
 
 
ELECTRICITY COMING TO OUR AREA
 
At present, our 6 orphan homes use solar pow­er along with bat­tery pow­ered lanterns for lights at night. This week, our long await­ed prayers were answered as the elec­tric lines passed by ALL our chil­dren’s homes. 
 

Elec­tric­i­ty will soon be a real­i­ty for our orphan homes.​
 
Our chil­dren all live on the same dirt road, but their homes are in 4 small clus­ters, each about 100 yards/meters apart with pri­vate mud huts in between. This way, the chil­dren grow up in a vil­lage com­mu­ni­ty, and not in a dorm type set­ting, sep­a­rat­ed from their neigh­bors.
 
God’s vision giv­en to me in 1992: Build homes the African way, keep­ing the chil­dren IN THEIR CULTURE. 
 
We’ve done just that, with Home #7 soon to open. God’s vision has become a real­i­ty thanks to all of you giv­ing a help­ing hand.
 
BLESSINGS,  
BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE 
AND THE BALAMA STAFF