October 10, 2024

The menu is set, cute videos are loaded, really cool auction items are posted for bids, Paul and Michael are ready and Kelle is set to go. Right now over one hundred and sixty of our closest and dearest friends will meet us at the Hilton Inn on Tuesday, the fifteenth, at 6pm. There is room for a few more in the Grand Ballroom. We are pretty excited and can’t wait to see you.

Update: Kalissa’s Shop is Open for business! This is a first for us since we don’t usually do a business for one of our babies.

This precious girl lost her mom in childbirth and no one knew who the father was. Since no one claimed the baby the hospital sent her to Neema Village and we named her for a young woman, Calissa Kneip, Calissa who had been a sponsor for Neema babies since the beginning had dreamed about her legacy and that we would name a baby Calissa.

Social Welfare later found the father and he has been the best dad. He comes often to feed her and she loves him dearly. She will be going home soon. I think she will do a great job managing this shop with her dad, don’t you?

Thank you to all of you who helped with the rent, remodeling, painting, building shelves and stocking the product for this grand opening. Motorcycle Taxis are very dangerous in Arusha so we are hoping her dad will make a good business partner for her selling household items and clothing.

And another new baby came this week, her mom just walked out and left her. I know it is hard to understand but we try not to judge these moms.

The baby is very tiny, weighing 1.66 KG, about 3 lbs, and is six days old now. Kim has named her Elisabeth. We love the name, Elisabeth White! Surely the God of the fatherless has great plans for little Elisabeth.

If you haven’t gotten your banquet tickets yet go to www.neemavillage.org.

Hopefully we will see you there, we are anxious to see who is going to drive out with that BMW motorcycle!

Love,

dorris and michael fortson
www.neemavillage.org