CASA DE INNOCENCIA

A little 4 month old baby named Innocencia comes to Bernadette every week with her aunt to the clinic to collect her baby milk. Bernadette wanted to help Innocencia and her aunt by helping put the roof on their house before rainy season comes in January. Bernadette paid for all the materials and labour needed. On Monday Jonny went to help gather grass for the roof to lay onto a newly constructed bamboo roof frame. Late on in the afternoon I came with the camera to get a few pics of what was happening. We'll put these up soon. 

There are 4 people living in the house, Innocencia, her aunt and two boys. Innocencia's mother died during childbirth so this is why she lives with her aunt. Her aunt is widowed. As part of O.W.Y Bernadette chooses very carefully the people she helps outside the project. Bernadette helps those in the worst circumstances, facing daily problems. 

Read James 1:27 to get a better picture of O.W.Y's mandate.

Also, pray for Lucas's family, his baby daughter is now sick and he has malaria. They're really going through a hard time at the moment. 

Love,

Jonny/Emma

GLORY GLORY TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR

Imagine spurs got relegated? What's going on with them? I'm missing the football lads, can't wait to get home to watching spurs on a sunday afternoon. (I'll probably regret saying that)

The Ramos revolution has ceased. Harry Redknapp? I don't know. All will be revealed. 

Chao,

Jonny

MAMA GABOUSA

So Mama Gabousa came to visit O.W.Y this week. for those of you who don't know who mama Gabousa is...she's the first lady of Mozambique. The presidents wife. So it was a pretty big deal. We had to get the place ready for her arriving so we were pretty busy. She came at about 7:30am on Monday morning and stayed for about half an hour, walking around looking at the clinic, school and meeting the children. She was interested in the work going on and when she was interviewed for the radio said she really enjoyed getting to see O.W.Y. This shows how significant the work of O.W.Y is that she would come to visit and Bernadette was very encouraged by this. She was nervous before hand but coped well.

Other News :

• We're obsessed with LOST. We started watching season one on Friday and haven't stopped since.
  
• We're now starting to prepare for graduation coming up at the beginning of November.
• We're going swimming in the river on Saturday with Elias.
• Hippos and Crocodiles also swim there.
• Mocuba is beautiful.

Love,

Jonny/Emma

PLAY TIME

NEWNESS

GOSTO DE PAINTAR

We've been painting the new swings that some of the workers made, teaching some english and painting the gate that Jonny helped make last week. It looks great. The nicest gate in Mocuba, we'd say. Bernadette even thinks so...so it must be right.

Eveything is going great for us. We have three weeks left here before heading to Quelimane so we're nearly halfway through.

Thanks so much for your comments and for remembering us in prayer. We really appreciate it.
We're putting up some pics of the kids so we'll now shut up and let you enjoy their bonita faces.

Bye bye

LUCAS

So alot has happened since we last were on here. Some of it isn't so good but God is still at work. Lucas, a night guard that works for Bernadette was told last week just after arriving at work that one of his children had meningitis and needed to go to the hospital asap.

This will begin to show you the amount of need in Mocuba. The system set up at the moment means that you have to apply by letter for the hospital to send you out an ambulance. It was a shocking thing for us to hear so we knew we had to help Lucas and his family asap. We tried to arrange transport for him to get home to get his child and then to be taken to the hospital. This proved to be very difficult. Lucas lived and hour and a half away from where he was and we had no car to take him anywhere. Operation Mobalisation have a base across the road from O.W.Y so we thought we'd check if their car was working. When we got there the car had a flat tyre.

It took over an hour to find and replace another tyre, so as time was passing we were getting more and more worried because every minute counts when it's an illness as serious as this. We eventually got the car up and running and Lucas was on his way to get his son. At this stage he didn't know what to expect when he arrived home as he had no phone to contact his wife.

They reached the hospital at about 2am after running out of petrol along the way but unfortunately his son died shortly after reaching the hospital. His son was 4 years old. We don't even know if he recieved the right treatment or if any treatment was even given to the child. This is because in the hospital in Mocuba there is no doctor. The hospital serves a 4 hour radius with only one ambulance. This can begin to show you the need there is here in Mocuba and the importance of the work of O.W.Y setting up a medical clinic.

Lucas is one of those African men you just instantly love without even talking to him. Our Potgugese is limited so it's hard to get to know someone terribly well but he's got the biggest smile you're probably ever gonna see. He was only off for 4 days and as soon as he came back he was straight back into work with that big smile and willingness to help. He's an amazing man and it would be great if you could pray for him, his family, the hospital in Mocuba and the work of O.W.Y.

Love,

Jonny/Emma