Another visit to the hospital!

On Thursday 3 of our children had surgery – an ear repair, a tonsillectomy and a set of grommets! Two of the children came back home that night and they are doing well. The girl who had the ear repair had to stay overnight because she had to start intravenous antibiotics to fight the massive infection she has. She was glad to come home today and is doing well - she’ll be on the IV antibiotics for five days. Please pray that all three of them will heal quickly.

Reports:
The children got their First Term reports from school and they all did well.

Mama Barbara's 60th birthday!!

Last week Mama Barbara had her 60th birthday. Her three daughters who live in America came out to SA so that they could be with her on her special day. The Lambano children joined them for cake and ice cream. We are so grateful to have Mama Barbara with us!

After 3 weeks of playing and running around at home, the children are back at school! Although they enjoyed their holidays, they were really excited to see their school friends.

Blessings!!!

We have a new Pregio 12 seater bus. Thanks to Auto Trader for raising funds and buying it for us. God is great!

After the show

Our children are on holiday, so one of the volunteers (Gillian) raised money for the children to go and watch the High School Musical show and afterwards they were treated to a nice dinner. The children had a lot of fun - they were even singing and dancing along.

New intakes!!

We have 2 new children, the boy is 13 years old (although he is the size of an 8 year old) and the girl is 8 years old. Both of these children are really sick, please pray that their treatment will be successful and that they will soon be well.

The boy is really shy and always plays by himself - he is learning to ride a bike.



The girl runs around and enjoys playing with the other children!

Sad news!!

One of our caregivers passed away on Thursday. She leaves behind two daughters. Please pray for the family during this time of mourning.

Our new baby!!

We have a new little boy. He came to us when he was 6 days old. He is really cute and really likes his bottle!

Painting the walls!

It’s really encouraging to see companies getting involved with different ministries! Last week we had people from Arthur Els & Associates coming for a day to paint our wall, fill up our sandpit and provide lunch for the children and staff. They also gave the children new toys which was very exciting. Thank you all for your hard work!

Time to say goodbye!!

Keisha with the children from 78 house

Keisha is one of our volunteers from the States who has been with Lambano Sanctuary for a year. Keisha is a biblical counselor by profession. She’s been counseling our children and helping us with some of the projects in Katlehong. Keisha stayed in one of the houses with the children and, in the evenings, she would read and pray with the children.

We thank the Lord for sending her to Lambano. She will be greatly missed!!!

Quote from one of the children:

One little boy was sitting with Auntie Barbara and they were packing a birthday gift of sweets for one of the volunteers. The little boy was looking at the gift and he said “the Devil wants me to eat these sweets but I won’t listen to him, I won’t eat the sweets”

Children are really cute!!

Two new babies!!!

We got these two little ones last Friday from the Katlehong hospital. Both were abandoned – one’s mother already has 3 children and didn’t want him and the other’s mother died shortly after her birth. The children were so dirty when they came that we thought they had been burned but it turned out to be dead skin which we scrubbed off. We found out yesterday that they are both HIV negative, for which we praise the Lord! We are trying to get them released for adoption.


Disclosure
2 weeks ago we disclosed to the children about their disease after much prayer and discussion. We were worried that the children would be really hurt and confused by knowing they were HIV + but they took it all in their stride. Some asked a few questions but then they just wanted to play. We know that, as they grow older, they will ask more questions. We are depending on the Lord to provide the answers to these questions that are honest, simple and understandable.

Birthday parties!
January and February are our busy months with all the birthday parties. Thanks to AFM Church for organizing the birthday parties and giving each child a gift voucher.