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Dear Friends,

Thanks so much for your prayers. These, together with your faithful support, keep us here.

In our last newsletter we told you about being appointed to the advisory committee for the Lilato (Love) home of Kids Alive Zambia. Since then we have been upgraded to the board of directors for Kids Alive Zambia. This ministry addresses the most overwhelming problem facing the church in Zambia today. We want to give you an update on the twins who have been staying with us and tell you about another family.

On the left is Muhau and on the right is her big sister Limpo. This picture is from February’s newsletter.

The one below is up to date with Lori holding these two healthy babies. They are now normal size and weight. We just praise God for restoring them to health and allowing us to be a part of this miracle.

This is Nambuwa when we were interviewing her for the Kids Alive home. Her mother died when she about 9 months old. Her father is terminally ill and not able to care for himself or his children.

Their maternal great aunt took in Nambuwa and her two sisters. However, the aunt has a large family and could not care for them well. So she sent the two bigger girls to live with their grandparents in the village. When we did the interview the great aunt was expecting and the prospect of another mouth to feed was not a welcome one.

This is Nambuwa’s pediatric weight chart and it clearly shows her problem.

The dots represent her weight and the two black lines indicate the normal range for a healthy baby. You can see a slight loss of weight when her mother became sick and she was weaned. After her mother died she continued well enough for a while, but after time people became tired of caring for her and began to let things slide. She lost weight instead of gaining from her 11^th month until her 20^th month when she came into the Lilato home.

It is our desire that the family should stay together, so we went out to the village to locate her two sisters. We found Sheila and Namakau also malnourished and living in an area without access to a school. These three are now living together again in the Lilato home and the two older ones are in pre-school.