All Things New

All Things New!

August 29, 2019

When new babies come to Neema Village it is a happy time. Everyone crowds around to meet the new little one. Meet this precious, happy baby, Glory. She wasn’t too happy the first couple days!! Since January we have had 20 new babies come to Neema. Today there are 62 babies and our big kids living at Neema.
New baby time is also a sad time as we think about what the new little ones went through before they got to us. We only take babies 2 and under. Some of our abandoned babies have been left on the roadside, some in latrines, one in a hotel room, one in a taxi, a little newborn still with umbilical cord left in a gravel pit, another laid down by the river, one in the grass and one found by children on their way to school as he sat crying in the road.  I cry with you little Emanuel, pictured below.
It’s always sad as I think about what happened to them as they waited for someone to find them. Our newest little one (pictured above) was two weeks old when Social Welfare called and asked if we could pick up an abandoned baby at the hospital. The mother had died at the birth and for two weeks no one ever came for the baby. 
We named her Christina for some good friends in Wisconsin who lost their daughter this year. Out of the ashes God brings new possibilities. These little abandoned ones have a new life ahead of them through adoption. We have babies adopted by a surgeon in Dares Salem, a nurse in Arusha, a missionary family, an Italian solar salesman working in Arusha, a teacher and so many others which means exciting new beginnings for them. Adoptions are happy times too.
Glory, the happy baby pictured at the top, came to Neema Village because Social Welfare had been trying to catch a mentally handicap woman who had a 3-month-old baby who was living in extremely substandard conditions even for Africa.  See her home below. So sad. God help us.
It is sad but important that you see sometimes where some of our babies come from.
Little tiny preemie twins who weighed about 2 Kilos have also come to Neema Village recently. Their mom died in childbirth and they have no one who can keep them right now. They are getting big and smiley now and should be able to go home to their grandmother soon.
Aren’t they just adorably, doubly cute!!
Babies who lose their mothers in Africa have a slim chance of surviving especially in the Maasai villages where there is no clean water, sanitation, electricity or medical care.  Since we are a rescue center and not an orphanage, we are “standing in the gap” for these babies until their family can step in.  So far, a family member has stepped in for 56 of these little ones! 
I love it! Many of them come back regularly for visits. Sometimes they bring goats!
Our new van from Japan also arrived this month and non too soon since our old one was falling apart from the rough roads here. The new one is pretty cool and even has air conditioning. So far we have had no one help us buy the van so if you can help that would be great. The old van is in the picture below, but I guess you knew that! 
The new school building is going up and the steel beams for the rafters will go up this week
That is pretty exciting for Teachers Ashley Berlin, from Casper, Wyoming and Napendella, who will finally have an office. The money set aside for the school/church was given separately and does not come out of your baby care donations.
And the new green house is growing up all kinds of colorful things like tomatoes, corn, blackeye peas and yellow squash.  
Our new NGO (nonprofit) officially making us Neema Village instead of Neema House is still exciting news. Hopefully no more cross wires on money going to the wrong Neema House. If you ever sent money to Tennessee that was meant for us, you sent it to the wrong Neema House. Our Nonprofit office is located in Waco, Texas, P.O Box 21553 and zip 76702. 
Neema means Grace and God’s Grace makes All Things New! Every day we get to start out fresh and He wipes out all the bad and the ugly and He makes all things new! There is nothing like Grace!
May your life be filled with a new fresh Grace today!
Dorris at www.neemavillage.org