Bush Beat Blog

DATE:  July 15, 2017

That’s how our ENTIRE staff felt as we start­ed a “nor­mal” week last Mon­day after 6 weeks of intense food buying.

Black eye peas (110+ TONS), June corn (180 TONS), rice (27 TONS), peanuts (1.5 TONS), Juko beans (1.7 TONS), Mon­te­ga beans (1.5 TONS), and FINALLY, the big finale with the buy­ing of the 127 TONS of July “super dry” corn from our Pastors.

I’m a giv­er, so now for the fun part!   All that went into the barns must now go out to help those in need.

The first week of AUGUST, we begin dis­trib­ut­ing food to over 2,300 vil­lage orphans in Bala­ma and Melu­co Dis­tricts.  These orphans all raise what they can in their family’s fields, but it won’t last them all year long.

With your help,  we give them a help­ing hand for the 4 hot and dry months when lit­tle will grow.  (Aug., Sept., Oct., and Nov.)

YOUR LOVE GIFTS FLOWS THROUGH US TO THE CHILDREN AND THE WIDOWS WHO CARE FOR THEM.

WHAT WE RECEIVE, WE PASS ON.

MUCH THANKS TO ALL OF YOU FOR HELPING US TO HELP THESE LITTLE ONES.

SCHOOL HOLIDAYS MEANS MORE PLAY TIME!

School hol­i­days began Fri­day for all chil­dren in Mozambique.

Noth­ing makes a child hap­pi­er than to be loved, well fed, and have more PLAY TIME!

Our younger chil­dren are mak­ing the most of it as the girls play a form of “jacks” at the activ­i­ty center.

The pre-school­ers are all a bunch of cam­era hogs, and took off run­ning to be the first on top of the slide when they saw me tak­ing photos.

The High School boys have left to vis­it fam­i­ly and play with their friends in their home villages.

In August, it will be back to school for all of them.

WATER WELL PROGRAM IS MAKING A DIFFERENCE

I’ve watched Bala­ma and Melu­co Dis­tricts grow and steadi­ly increase the num­ber of vil­lage water wells over the last 17 years.

Few­er orphans are being report­ed because CLEAN WATER means a health­i­er village.

YEARLY MAINTENANCE IS A MUST.

Manuel and Mario, our water well repair team, have just returned from a four day trip which took them deep in the bush to repair 13 water wells.

The vil­lagers eager­ly help as water means LIFE.

The cost of water well parts has risen, and the repair parts from last year are almost gone.

$150 is the aver­age cost to main­tain a water well serv­ing 3,000 peo­ple for a year!

Because water well parts have to be bought in Nam­pu­la City, a 7 hour dri­ve south of us, we need $4,000 to FILL OUR PICK UP, jus­ti­fy­ing the trip cost.

OUR GOAL:  PROVIDE CLEAN WATER FOR IT SAVES LIVES AND PREVENTS ORPHANS.

BLESSINGS,

BUSH BUNNY BRENDA LANGE

AND THE BALAMA STAFF