CHILD HEADED HOUSEHOLD
This week we opened a new bush feed­ing cen­ter in Kwe Kwe, a vil­lage that is 45 min­utes away on a rough dirt road.  (Dis­tance is order pre­scrip­tion drugs online 18 miles or 30 Km).
In this 8 vil­lage area our project man­ag­er, along with Social Ser­vices, dis­cov­ered 300 orphans and wid­ows liv­ing with basi­cal­ly noth­ing to eat.
Most of these kids have an ancient grand­moth­er or an aunt car­ing for them.
But we came across a fam­i­ly of 7 kids who are liv­ing the phrase “car­ing for one anoth­er as Jesus would care for us”.
Hav­ing lost their ENTIRE fam­i­ly, these 7 kids didn’t wait around for some­one else to pro­vide for them.
They decid­ed to do what had to be done to keep the fam­i­ly alive.
Farm­ing a field and car­ing for one anoth­er, we found the 3 old­er kids (broth­er 19, and 2 sis­ters 14 & 15), car­ing for the 4 younger chil­dren (3 boys and a girl).
They are hap­py in their vil­lage as they have many friends their and refused to move to Bala­ma to live with us.
 Social Ser­vices decid­ed that if we could give them a help­ing hand with food and their basic needs, that they could stay in their village.
Our project man­ag­er and I will be vis­it­ing them again this week to help meet their basic needs for cloth­ing, bed­ding, and kitchen items.
We will also help them get enrolled into school when the new term starts in January.
 
CHILD HEADED HOUSEHOLDS have become the norm in many African coun­tries where entire fam­i­lies have been wiped out from disease.
With orphan num­bers grow­ing in Mozam­bique, many teenagers may soon find them­selves in this same situation.
At Orphans Unlim­it­ed, it is our desire to give fam­i­lies of chil­dren a chance at a future with­out tak­ing them out of their cul­ture or away from their friends.
Thanks to YOUR LOVE GIFTS, these kids can have prop­er food, and a help­ing hand when they need it.
They will soon under­stand that there is some­one much more pow­er­ful than any man, who loves and cares for them.
 
ERIC (our chil­dren call him Mpakhi­ra, the one who hauls) DRIVING BACK TO BALAMA
 
Eric left South Africa on Sept. 19th dri­ving one of our Land Cruis­ers and pulling a full loaded trail­er with a year’s sup­ply of things we can­not get in Mozambique.
He should be in Bala­ma next week­end, as it takes 6 days to dri­ve the approx­i­mate 1000 miles (1,666 Km) from Johan­nes­burg to our mis­sion station.
This truck and trail­er car­ries the for­ti­fied HYPO PAP, essen­tial for our mal­nour­ished babies, as well as med­ical sup­plies and vit­a­mins for the kids in our pro­gram, and much, much more.
The health of our orphans depends on these sup­plies each year.
Eric has worked hard to get all the shop­ping done before his Oct. 8th knee replace­ment, so that the kids won’t have to suf­fer while he is recu­per­at­ing for the next 4 months.
We PRAISE THE LORD for all of you who have giv­en so gen­er­ous­ly to help with his knee replacement!!!
We are very close to hav­ing the need­ed amount in the bank!
 
 “HELPS” TEAM ON THE WAY!!!
  Work­ing 14 hours a day, 5 to 6 days each week, has been rough on this Bush Bun­ny, but God has pro­vid­ed 3 Amer­i­cans with air­line tick­ets so they could help out in Oct. and November.
All 3 of these peo­ple are expe­ri­enced short term “helps” mis­sion­ar­ies, and I great­ly look for­ward to meet­ing them upon their arrival on Oct. 6th.
 
GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU FOR YOUR PRAYERS AND HELPING HANDS THAT KEEP THIS PROGRAM GOING FOR OVER 1,500 ORPHANS!
 
LOVE AND HUGS, BUSH BUNNY BRENDA