Baby Ayla has arrived!

Ayla Iris Mapalo Freer arrived at 11.24am on Monday 10th March. Mum did brilliantly through 36 hours of hard work. We are delighted!

Ayla means ‘Oak’ in Hebrew and she is named after Iris, Matt’s Grandma who passed away 2 weeks before Ayla arrived, and also Mapalo the adopted name for one of the communities we worked with in Zambia – which is a Bemba word meaning ‘Blessing’.

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