Big Babies! Joshua Catherine Maurine Patrick & Joshua pushing Cosmas Rehema Princess Asha Emmanuel Lucia Amani Rahman Elisha George Raymond Clara Abdi Amani Wema Posted by Clairebear at 11:33 3 comments Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook Reactions: Growing, Growing, Growing! Here are some recent pictures of Silvamos & David who are growing at incredible speeds. David is growing faster than Silvamos but both are pretty chubby now. I must say, though obviously biased, they are the most gorgeous babies in the nursery, always smiling and cooing. I try to visit them at least once a day although often one [ Read More ]
Archive for November, 2011
Nursery babies In the nursery we now have 11 babies!! Charles born end of June, mother died Grandma couldn’t care for him, ill go back to Grandma when older, he cries a lot!! Zawadi born in July, mother died, father untraceable, family will take responsibility in the future, gorgeous baby but suffers with a bad chest. Silvamos born Aug 1st, mother died father will take him and his twin when they are older. He is my beautiful boy, he is doing well in the nursery though not as well as David, he smiles lots and coos all the time 🙂 David, twin [ Read More ]
blankets and clothing and toys. thank you to the kindergarten kids at bowman hills sda church.trying to get the photos for you to see.patience please. Davona Church telling children at Church about Cradle Max Church helping the children do a craft
Slugs & Snails & Puppy Dog Tails… Two new little boys. Three little girls move out of Cradle and two little boys come in. Tumaini This little boy was brought to us Friday, all I know about him is that his 18 year old mother suddenly dropped down dead, very sad. He has a full head of thick black curly hair and thick black eyebrows. I haven’t yet seen him awake. Ibrahim Ibrahim was brought to us on Saturday, aged just two days old his mother and twin tragically died at birth, his father is in a psychiatric unit, I [ Read More ]
In the last few weeks we have had three large groups of visitors from Canada. They came with African Horizons, with all three visits these groups literally filled my office with donations. We have received clothes, toys, shoes, coloring paper & crayons, books, cloth nappies, disposable diapers, flannels, babies blankets, blankets for the staff, mosquito nets, bed sheets, toothpaste, toothbrushes, creams, lotions, talc, toilet rolls, cleaning products, mops, a dozen or more large tubs of peanut butter, boxes of cowbell (powdered milk), boxes of Lactogen (infant formula), packets upon packets of spaghetti, loads of kilos of rice, sugar, maize flour, [ Read More ]
Just over a week ago we took the Cradle of Love Baby Home Preschool children on a trip to Mt Meru Game Sanctuary. Beth, Sarah, Lili, Claire, Hope, Lazaro, Nina, Anya, Tessa, Kurwa, Careen and Jackline went on the excursion. We all had a lovely time despite the fact the children were very scared of the animals!
Recently I went Batilda’s for lunch, I just wanted to show you this picture so you can see how Rahma, Musa & Vivian are looking these days. All three of them are growing up so well, Vivian is all smiles and happy, Rahma is just as cheeky as ever and Musa is just happy to be with his Bibi. Both Rahma and Musa are doing well also in their local school. Batilda and her nannies do a fabulous job of looking after these three and I know all who are involved with Cradle of Love appreciate her a lot. Last [ Read More ]
Upendo was found abandoned opposite Usa Plaza, she still had her umbilical cord and placenta. The people who found her took her to the police and hospital then brought her to us. She was found on August 16th 2011. Princess arrived to us on 17th August, she was born May 10th 2010. Her mother has apparently run away and her father says that his new wife does not want anything to do with her, he has arranged a place for her at Tumaini home when she is older. I do wish these people are made to live up to their [ Read More ]
Babies Coming, Babies Going, A Former Baby Visits & Erik Getting Lost! Cradle has been a pretty busy place these last few weeks, we had Precious, Rehema, Rose, Hope and Lazaro leave then on Monday Hussein left us to go back to his father and his new wife! This is the only picture I have at the moment of Upendo giving him lunch before he left, the rest are on another volunteers camera, once I get them I will upload!! Next we have had babies arriving, George, Asha & Pumpkin who I have already introduced you to followed by Helen [ Read More ]
Claire, Bethany, Mama Musa and all the other staff helped to put on a wonderful Birthday Party for the October kids. Each had a yummy Banana muffin, blew out the candles, played with balloons, and fun time.