January birthdays!!

Our oldest girl, she is 10 years old!

He turned 7

He turned 8

She turned 5

This 12 year boy was in coma when he came to us. He was in a car accident where his father was killed and his brother became a paraplegic. Our volunteer orthopedic surgeon operated on him and reset the breaks in his leg and put on a full body cast. His mom and older sister visit him all the time!


And on Tuesday they took off his cast and he is doing much better. Every day we see new improvements in him. He responds to instructions like “close your eyes”, “lift up your arm” etc. and today he wouldn’t return someone’s cell phone but hid it away! Something is certainly clearing in that head of his, it’s so exciting.

On Thursday he started his occupational therapy and he was not happy with the therapist. We are trying to get neuro physiotheraphy a few time a week for him so that we can rehabilitate him as much as possible before he goes back to his family.

Please pray for his recovery!

School starts!!!

The Grade 1 with their friend

1st day of school

We now have 18 children in school. Two of the girls started Grade 1 this year and they seem to be enjoying themselves.

Updates:

In January last year this 3 ½ year old boy was in a coma because of the build up of fluid on his brain and we nearly lost him. However, thanks to Private Hospitalisation and a new shunt, he recovered but he had lost the ability to sit up or talk. After much occupational therapy and the hard work of the house mothers and Aunty Barbara, he quickly regained his speech and ability to sit up. The next step was scooting around on his bottom. A week ago he started to walk and is gaining in strength every day – it’s a delight to see him waddling along with his arms flapping to help with stability! This year he will start speech therapy and we know he will do well. We thank God for sparing this little life.

Working with the occupational therapist

Walking

One of our staff member had a little baby boy on the 01st of January

Happy New Year!!

Phew, what a year!
2009 was tough year for everybody and we at Lambano are so grateful to the people who gave so generously – without these finances we would not have been able to keep our doors open. Also, a big thank you to all our volunteers and prayer partners, your support is invaluable.

Christmas blessings:

The children were really blessed this Christmas with lots of gifts and parties!

Katlehong:

We also had a Christmas party in Katlehong for the children on the feeding scheme. Thank you to Santa Shoeboxes that provided Christmas gifts for all 27 children.

Have a blessed year and may the Lord bless you!!!

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