March 7th, 2010 by Davona
Saturday morning, early, Jerry and Tammy Backus, along with their 4 year old daughter, Rachel; a lawyer; and Esther from Imara Ministries, went to the village of Baby Rachel’s family. Both of Rachel’s parents are dead, so the grandparents signed all the legal forms for the Backus family to adopt her. Her new name is Sharon Psalms.
Backus Family
Yesterday the uncle of Lowasa, referred a Maasai father to us, whose wife died two weeks ago, leaving a little boy. They came back today with the appropriate paperwork and we accepted almost 3 month old Mark into care. He smelled awful and was in filthy clothing with a black piece of cloth with two knots in it, around his neck. His eyes are somewhat sunken from dehydration and he has diarrhea. When we first tried to feed him, he vomited up some vile looking milk . We are trying to flush out his system with oral re-hydration fluids and slowly give him proper baby milk. He was just getting milk straight from the cow, out at the Maasai village.
He makes baby 10 in the nursery!
Mark, born on December 12, 2009
March 4th, 2010 by Davona
This afternoon a young German man who is volunteering in the area, came by with some toys. He said that a friend of his who teaches kindergarten in Germany, heard he was coming to Tanzania . She asked the children she teaches if they would like to give one of their toys to a child in Africa. Some of the children cried as they parted with one of their favorite toys. But they DID give! What a wonderful way to teach how to share. Thank you.
Amina and Selemani with new cuddly toys
Jan and Mariah with older kids toys
February 27th, 2010 by Davona
This morning a wonderful group of people came to visit us from the International Tribunal. They brought us so many wonderful gifts for the babies; clothes, baby bouncer, formula, baby powder and oil, biscuits, porridge, instant cereal, diapers…THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH.
They stayed to help feed the babies lunch as well. What a blessing to have such caring and sharing people in our lives at Cradle!
February 24th, 2010 by Davona
Yesterday Wendy and Rebecca from Seaway, brought James (Moses) and the twins Zainabu and Ally, to visit us. It was so nice to see how they have grown. Zainabu is a chatter box and almost sounds American. James was hesitant to be back at CoL as he has had trauma in his life in the last 10 months with being moved from a family situation, back into a group situation. He has abandonment issues. He remembered Helen though, as she was the one he followed around all the time, when he lived with us. Ally was totally enthralled with the dogs.
Pretty Zainabu
Ally, full of smiles
Bibi Helen with “her” boy James Moses
