FATIMA

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Fatima pictured here at the orphanage in Malavela.
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All of our kids are great, we have no favourites...well we shouldn't have, but here is someone who is a bit special, She`s four years old, according to the doctor in Maputo who aged her according to the formation of her teeth.
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When she came into our care we knew nothing about her, we did not know her name, or where she came from, she could not speak. All we knew, is that she had been found abandoned in a ditch at the side of a road. We did not know how long she had
been there. She was looking rough, and had been putting dirt in her mouth trying to feed herself.
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A passer by heard her crying, and rescued her.
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Enquiries were made for several weeks, in the near by town of Manihca, as we tried to locate her parents. No one knew where she was from, or who she belonged to.
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Martha decided to call the little girl Fatima, after the lady who found her. She is doing really well now. She rushes up to greet you in the morning with the other children, her big brown eyes meet yours and she breaks into a big smile. Another of the little treasures from heaven that we have the privilege to look after.
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Our orphanage is getting quite well known now, which is great and we have the favour of the local authorities who have even asked for our help and occasionally have brought children to us. Every one who visits, is impressed with our premises.
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The children sleep in bedded rooms of ten, with a carer, and have flushing toilets, and showers, and each child receives three cooked meals a day
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Our orphanage is in a beautiful place, and as we are developing the site, we have been careful to keep as many of the lovely large trees as possible, which provide essential shade and also a wonderful place to hang rope swings.
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Lazaro busy enjoying life!
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It's well known these days that life in an orphanage is not the best way forward for the children's long term development. We aim to get these beautiful children that have been rescued, back into a local family enviroment, where they will be supported, and carefully monitored.
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In the meantime, our premises provide an effective life-line and a safe haven, where our children can get healed, strenthened, and released from past traumas.
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