As HOPE has become better known in the community, we are
having more and more infants referred to us by nearby clinics. These babies no longer have a mother or their
mother is not able to produce milk to feed her baby. The babies are sometimes brought to us in
desperate and immediate need of milk formula or cow milk in order to
survive.
Baby S (names omitted) entered our program a few months ago
after her mother passed away unexpectedly.
Her sweet father brings her every week, carrying her on his back. It is very rare for a Zimbabwean man to carry
a baby in this way and just shows how much he truly loves his daughter.
Our newest baby, Baby A, was brought early on a Monday
morning when she was just three days old.
Her mother had died in childbirth and the relatives had been frantically
searching for a way to feed the baby all weekend.
HOPE also has a set of triplets ready to graduate from the
milk program in a few months. Their
mother was not able to produce enough milk to keep all three at a healthy
weight. With the supplemental milk they
received from HOPE, all three boys are now running, playing and strong. We will proudly and happily graduate three
healthy boys in August when they reach two years of age.
Infants need 6 to 7 tins of milk formula each month until
they reach one year of age, at which point we encourage relatives to find cow
milk for the children. We pay the cost of
the cow milk, which is considerably cheaper than the milk formula. Currently, HOPE is spending $600 per
month on milk formula and cow milk.
If you or a group you are a part of would be willing to
raise funds to help offset the cost of milk for our babies, this assistance
would be greatly appreciated. We are
constantly getting new babies at a higher rate than we are graduating them, so
ongoing or one-time donations specifically for milk will always be a need high
on our priority list.
If you decide to assist with this need, please send
donations to:
CornerStone International
PO Box 192
Wilmore, KY 40390
Memo: HOPE of Zim/milk
If you donate through Paypal by clicking the link to the
right of this posting, just send me a quick email (hopeofzim@gmail.com) so that I know the
funds are specifically for milk. 
Thank you in advance!
Wenyu Munashe,
Janine, Abigail and Grace
