RUAMA Baby House

The RUAMA baby house is situated in the town of Marromeu along the Zambezi River, about 40 miles from where the river meets the Indian Ocean. The town is only a dot on a map because of a sugar plantation that has based there and used the river to transport their goods.

RUAMA is currently caring for 35 infants of mothers who can not produce their own milk, are too sick to care for the child or have died. Children who are cared for by RUAMA are fed until they are four years old and then resettled into their orginal family with a surviving family member or foster family.

I was notified last Monday during a staff meeting at Mercy Air that RUAMA could not find the hight nutrient milk powder they use to feed the infants. Thanks to an organization named Fortune for Misfortune and several others, we were able to fund 500lbs of the baby formula and the flight expenses to take it to them. Below is the Director of RUAMA (Janny) and Stephanie after stocking the storage room.

Although the process was full of hurdles that threatened to stop our efforts at every stage, we were successful in fundraising, purchasing, flight logistics and final delivery within two days of our awarness of the situation....certainly a remarkible response time in any country.