This picture makes me smile, doesn’t it you! The sweet look of love on the face of the new mom in the picture above just gives me happy goose bumps. A new family being made at Neema House Arusha!! How sweet it is. Mama Musa, our Neema manager, is on the left and Matt Erdman is pictured above with Ezra and his new family. Baby Ezra had been abandoned at the big government hospital  in Arusha and brought to Neema on August 11, 2015. He weighed a tiny 2.5 kg but has now become a big healthy boy. 

We try very hard to not judge these women who abandon their babies. It is difficult to understand what would make a mother do something like this. We know mothers everywhere love their babies. It must be something so drastic and traumatic that she feels she has no choice but to her lay her baby down and walk away. I cannot imagine the anguish in her heart as she does this.

 We always have so many options here. When we get down to nothing, we can sell a car, call a grandmother, ask the church, find a government help program etc. But if you live in a country where there are no government programs and everyone else is destitute too, or you are in a culture that believes in stoning, or you are poor and desperate and don’t know what else to do, you might be tempted to do just what Ezra’s mom did.

Ezra with Barry Azzopardi from Australia.

But what evil meant for bad, God has meant for good! Someday we hope to see this little boy all grown up, loving people, helping his country, loving God and know that he was ours first and we had a tiny part in all that goodness for him.

Michael and Dorris Fortson