We all managed to get together for a group shot, our pre Christmas pose in uniform!



A child takes inventory of all the little babies. We are full once again and we have a bunch of toddlers, many talking and jabbering freely now.



On our neighbors lot we continue to grow many varieties of vegetables for the staff and children. All natural, healthy and fresh to the table. We are able to sell some of the herbs and vegetables to walk in customers and one super market. The property is available and for sale. If some one buys it from the owner we will lose that part of the farm. We pray we will be able to buy it next year.



We hired a sugar-mill-on-wheels to extract cane juice. It was a handy machine that allowed us to extract almost 3 drums of cane juice. Then we had to cook down 500 Liters into about 25 Kilos of raw organic sugar. That should hold us for a few birthday cakes at the orphanage.



The flowering of the sugar cane indicates high concentration of sugars with minimum water content. These are fifteen foot tall photosynthetic factories of natural sweetness.