The Green Pump Hand Sanitizer...Don't leave home without it

So what do you see in these three pictures that is the same? Well if you look hard enough you will see the green-topped pump of a Babyganics hand sanitizer. I can honestly say we have not left home without it for the past two years! It has been our go to for trying to stay as healthy as we could while Jud's lungs heal and repair themselves after his severe Merconium Aspiration at birth. So when we asked Dr. Alyssa Pfister who is serving as a physician at the hospital in Burundi what our family could do this year for the NICU she immidiately said hand sanitizer! Well we definitely knew which one we wanted to send! 

So I reached out to the Babyganics company and told them our story...and they graciously donated some product and also said we could purchase additional product for the hospital at a discounted price. So now we have been given space on the hospital's medical equipment container that will be leaving the US in July headed for Burundi for the sanitizer! Our goal is to send a years supply of hand sanitizer to set up stations not only in the small NICU but throughout the 80 bed hospital. 

The reason hand sanitizer is such a vital need is because this remote hospital is in a spot that is difficult to provide fresh running water to so they are often without the ability to use fresh wash their hands in the hospital. Currently they use water buckets outside the patients room with soap and water. They are working to raise funds to bring a water engineer on staff to help remedy this problem in the future but for now hand sanitizer would bring MUCH needed help to this tiny hospital. 

Please join us by donating any amount you can. You will see a donation link to the left of this post (NOTE IF YOU ARE READING THIS on an tablet or mobile device you will have to select the option to see full website for the link). Donating is safe, easy and tax deductible!!! Please make sure to note in the MESSAGE section "Hand Sanitizer for Kibuye Hope Hospital Project". 

Thank you for considering this wonderful spot on the earth to help. 

Happy Day baby Jud!!!

Happy 2nd birthday baby Jud!!! Today for Jud's birthday we are starting a month-long project (til we get to Benjamin's birthday on March 27th) to donate much needed supplies to the NICU in Burundi that was started in honor of Jud and Benjamin last year thanks to the AMAZING generosity of many of you! As many of you know both boys are NICU survivors and God used NICU medical teams to help our boys make it through the first few months of life. We are so humbled to be able to have the opportunity to help our friend and doctor Dr. Alyssa Pfister as she begins a great work in Africa to help babies in need!

Our church Red Mountain Church is gathering infant and preemie hats to have at the hospital for each new baby. We are also working to collect hand sanitizer that we can send to the hospital. They are currently raising funds to bring a water engineer onto their team in Burundi but until he is able to be on site there are many days that clean, running water is not available. We hope that in the gap we can provide much needed protection by sending sanitizer for the family of each NICU patient and doctors, ect.

More to come on opportunities to give, to pray and to hear about this amazing spot on the globe! Please don't miss the video from our last post that gives you a beautiful glimpse at the Kibuye Hope Hospital in Burundi Africa!

A great work...The Kibuye Hope Project

As we get ready to celebrate Jud turning 2 (Feb. 24th) and Benjamin to turn 7 (March 27) we are gearing up to bring supplies to this amazing spot in the world where doctors are attempting to care for some of the world's poorest people. The doctors at Kibuye Hope in Burundi are also training up a new generation of doctors at one of the only teaching hospitals in the region. The NICU began in honor of Jud and Benjamin and you will see a glimpse of it in this video and will see our friend Dr. Alyssa Pfister caring for one of her tiny patients.