From: “Bren­da Lange” 
Sub­ject: Blog, Nov. 18, 2012
Date: Novem­ber 18, 2012 4:27:19 AM CST

SURPRISE INSPECTION OPENS EYES OF INSPECTORS
Sat­ur­day at 9a.m. a pick-up truck drove through our gates with 5 gov­ern­ment offi­cials who dropped in to sur­prise us with an inspec­tion of our min­istry and children’s homes.  But the sur­prise was theirs when they say the new girl’s and boys’ dorms that is being paint­ed and almost ready for the chil­dren to live in.
THEY WERE AMAZED!
Then we took them down the street to meet the 7 lit­tle girls that live with fos­ter moth­er, Bal­bi­na. (girls’s dorm)
  Michael Lowe, from Engi­neers with­out Bor­ders, was busy super­vis­ing one of our mas­ter brick­lay­ers, who was build­ing one of the new ROCKET STOVES that uses very lit­tle fire­wood.  The inspec­tors were total­ly fas­ci­nat­ed with the Rock­et Stoves as the lead inspec­tor had heard of these stoves but had nev­er seen one.  These 5 men and women were so pleased with what they saw at Bal­bi­nas, plus the new­ly con­struct­ed hous­es, that they said they did not need to see any more.  They told us to keep up the pos­i­tive work we were doing, and they left, as they had many oth­er children’s pro­grams to inspect.
  We were tru­ly THRILLED at get­ting such a pos­i­tive report from them!
 
Michael’s stoves ARE TRULY WONDERFUL and the women who are cook­ing on the ones we just built are super happy!
They get more heat from less fire­wood, mean­ing that water boils faster, and the food cooks quicker.
 
ROCKET STOVES WILL BLESS ZITO’S HOME IN NAMARA TOMORROW
  Zito’s moth­er will receive the first Rock­et Stove in Nama­ra tomor­row when our truck takes Michael and his stove build­ing team to that village.
We’ve invit­ed sev­er­al brick lay­ers to attend and learn how to build the stoves TOTALLY from local mate­ri­als that they have.
Our objec­tive is to train up sev­er­al men in that area that can build stoves for the many wid­ows of the Nama­ra Church.
 
FOOD DISTRIBUTIONS COMING TO A CLOSE
Last week we deliv­ered food twice to the orphans and their grand­moth­ers (most­ly tod­dler age orphans) in the Kwe Kwe area.
This gives them seed to plant and food to eat dur­ing the rainy season.
This Fri­day, we will make the last food drop for this year to the orphans in the 7 vil­lages of the Mavala area (Man­go Tree Church area).
That will close our 2012 food pro­gram for the remote areas, as the rainy sea­son is about to begin.
For those of you not famil­iar with our area, our roads are clay and sand.  Once the rains begin, many roads become too mud­dy for even 4 wheel dri­ve to nego­ti­ate.  Many of the remote vil­lages we serve are only acces­si­ble by foot or bicy­cle from Jan­u­ary to March.
Not even motor­bikes can get through this sticky mud. 
 
That’s about it from this side for this week.
Hap­py Thanks­giv­ing to every­one in the USA.
Enjoy your Turkey Day!  We hope to find a big fat chick­en that wants to be our guest of honor.
 
Bless­ings, Bush Bun­ny Bren­da and the Bala­ma gang