Two new children

We have 2 new babies from Kwa Mhlanga, a very poor rural area about 80 kilometers to the northeast of Johannesburg. This is village were Lambano’s founder is now working on a large project.

The new boy is 2 years old and he is HIV+, has TB and is badly malnourished. We had to give him a blood transfusion last week to speed up the recovery from the malnutrition. This has certainly helped, but as soon as he started improving he got chickenpox. His mother died last year and his grandmother has been taking care of him.

The other child who is also HIV+, is 7 months old but looks like a new born baby. She is also from Kwa Mhlanga - her mom died 2 weeks ago and her Aunt is looking after her. When she arrived at Lambano she was so ill we had to have her admitted to hospital. While in hospital she will also be tested for dwarfism as her limbs seem to be too short for her length.


Randy, one of the workers from Kwa Mhlanga, told us there are more than a hundred children like these two in that area. We will try to help as many of these children as we can, but we are severely limited in terms of space. This is why we are trying to source funds to build an eight to ten bed hospice in the near future.


Please pray for all these children

New addition to our family!!!

When we get new children they are usually shy, but the new little boy that we got is not shy at all. He is 2 years old, his mother died and his father is in jail. He is cute and just loves playing with the older boys.

Here is our oldest boy, he turned 8 last week!

Another success story!

When this little girl came to us she could not speak a word of English. With the amazing ability children have to adapt, during the 6 months she has been with us, she has learned enough English to interact with the other children and make her needs known to the caregivers.

The little girl with her mom going back home!

She was nearly 8 years old when she came to us and had been unable to start her schooling because of her illness. When she came to us she had pneumonia and we had to put her on full time oxygen. The sad part is that the hospital had discharged her, sending her home without any medication - a regular occurence in South Africa. Once she was over the pneumonia we started her on TB treatment and then anti- retroviral drugs.


We are thrilled that she is doing so well that she went home to her family last week. We are pushing for her into school soon!

We apologise for not updating our blog last week Friday, the internet was down! Hope this week it will work.......