“Catching up on the new babies at Neema.”
Ruth is an abandoned baby. Her mother was living with her dad and step mother and when they found out she was pregnant, they began abusing her. So, she left home and later abandoned the baby. Baby Ruth was found and the police were called. Later they located the mother. When the baby’s mother told her story of abuse instead of putting her in jail the police called social welfare who then called Neema Village. Now this mother is getting the help she needs. She has visited Ruth at Neema. Hopefully as soon as she is stable and can provide a safe home for her daughter, they can be reunited.
This mother may be a candidate for our MAP program which was designed to help mothers like this who abandon their babies not because they don’t love them but because they are poor, desperate and feel they have no other choice. Please consider sponsoring baby Ruth while she is at Neema Village. Go to www.neemavillage.org.
Thank you to Marve Sattiewhite (pictured in the first photo) from Fort Worth for the cute photo of Baby Ruth Burrito above.
Namnyaki came to Neema a week ago, she is also an abandoned baby. Her name in Masaai language means “blessings”. 
She is about 3 years old but weighs what a healthy one year old would weigh. Her mother abandoned her with a neighbor. After a few days when the neighbor realized the mother was not coming back she took the baby to her grandmother who said “if you leave her with me, I will kill her.” So the neighbor called Social Welfare who called Neema Village. We love this shy, timid, precious baby girl and she is now beginning to smile and join in the fun at Neema. Please consider sponsoring her, we need your help with all these new babies. Go to www.neemavillage.org.
Abigaeli, pictured right, was born on April 24, 2018. She is a healthy baby. Sadly both of her parents have died. Her mother passed away during Abigaeli’s delivery. Both sides of the families were fighting over who would keep the baby and someone took the baby from the hospital. She was found and brought back and Social welfare has stepped in to help settle the dispute. We will keep her until things are settled. She does have an older sister that is interested in taking care of her after she is stable. Hopefully we will only have her for a short time but if you could sponsor her we could certainly use your help. Please go to www.neemavillage.org.
Dennis and David are twins and their mother is 18 and alone.
She does not have family who can help her and did not seem to know how to properly care for the babies. The baby boys were in “failure to thrive” when they were brought to Neema by friends from the Andrew Connally School of Preaching, Justin and Anna Maynard, who live on the other side of Arusha.
The mother and babies have been in the isolation room at Neema for over a month. They are now healthy, cute little boys.The mother has decided that she can not care for the boys right now so she will be leaving them at Neema. Neema will help her set up a used clothing business and will apprentice her to another MAP mom who is doing a successful business in used clothing. We will be asking friends to help pay for her apartment for 6 months while she gets her business going under the condition that she visit the babies regularly each week. Hopefully then she will be able to take the boys home. Mariya Halapi set her up with business clothes from our “Dress for Success” room at Neema.
Elisha and Edward, pictured below, are two little boys from a set of triplets who have been at Neema for 3 weeks. This is the second set of newborn tiny triplets we have had at Neema in the last two months and makes 12 sets of triplets we have helped over the past six years. What gives with this!!!
Their little triplet sister, Esther, was able to leave the hospital yesterday with their mom, so the family is finally back together again with all three babies and the mother in the isolation room at Neema. The boys weighed 1.67 kg and 1.68 kg when they came in and are now up to 2.12 kg.
The boys looked really tiny until their little sister came in. Esther pictured above is skin and bones! We have had round the clock nannies in the isolation room for 2 months to help these moms care for their babies. That is a lot of overtime! Our nannies do love the overtime but it does put a strain on our budget! If you can help while we keep the triplets at Neema we would be very thankful.