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BUSH BEAT: September - October - November 2005ORPHAN and MALNOURISHED PROGRAMS BUSTING AT THEIR SEAMS!With famine a real problem in Mozambique this year, we have our hands full taking in a steady stream of newly orphaned and malnourished babies/toddlers. Normally, the Balama area has the best corn and bean harvests for the whole state, but this year much of Africa has suffered poor harvest due to irregular rain patterns and drought. The average 10-12 month old baby brought to us weighs only 2-3 lbs. ABOVE IT'S BIRTH WEIGHT! That is extremely alarming. I PRAISE THE LORD DAILY FOR ALL OF YOU who are backing our Orphan and Malnutrition Programs. With your funds we are buying life saving high protein cereal (Hypo Plus cereal) in RSA, and super high protein Reliv Milk from the USA. The combination of these 2 products gets these kids back to a normal weight within 6 months. I personally examine the critical kids each week, checking their weight gain, anemia level caused by intestinal worms, and treating any local diseases they have picked up. Thanks to these superior food and milk products, we rarely lose a child even if they are brought to us near death. In 2005, we lost only 8 malnourished babies and have treated over 225. Orphans are being admitted at a rate of 1-5/week due to mother's dying in child birth, or from severe diarrhea and malaria. TWO WIDOWED SISTERSTwo widowed sisters and 5 small children walked in from the Tanzanian border area (150 miles away) looking for help. All 5 kids belonged to one sister, who owned nothing but the rags on their backs. As they arrived in the Balama area, the mother of the 5 kids died from diarrhea. The sister brought the children to us, asking for help. She is now registered in our orphan program, has a house, and is caring for the 5 orphans. Thanks to YOUR GENEROSITY, we were able to provide what they desperately needed. Mothers with malnourished babies or women raising orphans who come to us without a means for a new start, are given prayer, a hoe, machete, and seeds. This small love gift, provided by YOU, brings hope to their hearts and renews their self worth. The women want to provide for their children, and are very grateful for the hope this program brings. Many water wells have dried up in our area, due to low rainfall in 2004. November is the peak of the dry season. This forces mother's to use bacteria infested surface water for drinking. Due to our limited food stores, we can only admit another 50 people total between these 2 feeding programs this year. At the rate they are flowing in, that could be in less than 6 weeks. SOLUTION: EXPAND THE PROGRAM by at least 1000 children in 2006. Social
Services has asked us to open at least 2 additional Nutritional Centers in remote areas of Balama County. Our goal is to have 4 additional centers by
2007 serving at least 2000 children. WE MAY NOT SAVE THEM ALL, BUT WE WILL HELP AS MANY AS WE CAN! USA SPEAKING TOUR for 2006The NEW MOVIE OF OUR WORK IN MOZ. will debut in January, 2006 as I start my speaking tour. In order to expand our program, we need to have more people know of our work YOU CAN MULTIPLY YOUR LOVE BY SHARING OUR VISION with interested friends and family in your areas. Send them an e-mail telling them to check out our web site. While in the USA, I can be still be contacted at Brenda@orphansunlimited.org. ORPHAN SPONSORSHIPSponsorship is $30/month - which provides each child with a blanket, bedding, clothes, food, medical, and school materials. SPONSORING A MALNOURISHED BABY and THE MOTHER TAKES $15/month OR $180/year. BUSH BUNNY SPEAKING SCHEDULE FOR 2006 - updated 1/20/06
BUSH BUNNY CARROT STICKS!1. AMERICAN TEAM MEMBERS, Radhika Mittapalli and Stephen Lazar of Tulsa have 2. BRENDA DORRANCE of Colorado Springs is also part of the American team 3. Franquina has recovered! This 12 year old orphan girl broke her right wrist due to a fall into a 24 ft. deep hand dug water well in Sept. Just a week after this incident, my largest guard dog, 50 lb. Toto, jumped our fence and went racing off into the night. He was running in total darkness, and didn't see a newly hand dug water well in our neighborhood (3 ft. diameter hole). He fell straight down, 24 feet and stayed there all night. At dawn my guards told me what had happened, and that he was alive. We wasted no time grabbing 2 ladders and some rope. Around here, you make your own extension ladder if you need one. I expected to get him out in order to put him out of his misery. Surely he had fractured a leg or 2. DO DOGS HAVE ANGELS? This one does. That dog had NO BROKEN BONES and NO ABRASIONS on him at all. He was content to be out, and has not jumped the fence since. He says night life is too dangerous! 4. Our 17 teenage boys are now living in the new dorm donated by World Orphans of Colorado Springs. They are extremely happy and are doing a great job of keeping it neat and clean. The boys have formed an awesome church choir using my guitar, an old tambourine, and my hard sided guitar case as a base drum. We hope to find them a locally made drum very soon. The boys are also learning farming via on the job training, as they clean and plant their own bean fields this year. The beans they grow, we will gladly buy from them to give them some pocket money. This is the first phase in their jobs skills training to develop them into the future businessmen of Balama. These boys, ages 13-18, are learning the value of responsibility, and hard work in exchange for a profit. Most of the boys are taking advanced English classes and computer classes taught by visiting missionaries, Brenda Dorrance and Radhika Mittapalli. Our 2006 vision includes the addition of diesel mechanics and building construction classes for the boys. (We have no teenage girls at the moment, so that is why we have no special skills classes for them.) 5. Our Texas Family from Beaumont have been delayed due to difficulties in getting their residency papers for Moz. It is never an easy task, and we are hoping this family can get to us as the heavy rains have started in southern Moz. We are suffering 100+F heat each day, but are thankful that the occasional breeze makes it bearable. Our rains have not started yet, which is not good for our farm crops. MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM ALL OUR MOZ., ZAMBIAN, and USA STAFF!Words cannot express our thanks to all of you for your faithful love gifts that have blessed our kids beyond anything you could imagine. I look forward to greeting many of you as I make my 2006 tour. My special thanks to Karen Brooks our USA secretary and to our voluntary Directors in the USA and South Africa. They all volunteer many hours of their valuable time to meet the administrative needs of Orphans Unlimited. Those of us on the field couldn't do it without them! GOD'S BLESSINGS and PROTECTION BE WITH ALL OF YOU DURING THE CELEBRATION OF OUR LORD'S BIRTHDAY and THE ENTRANCE OF 2006! BUSH BUNNY BRENDA and the BALAMA STAFF LOVE GIFTS are to be written to: E-MAIL TO BRENDA LANGE: brenda@orphansunlimited.org
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