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Sue Hayward
C/O Elizabeth Gomm
6, Burwood Drive.
Blackpool
FY3 8NS
 
Telephone number 07905130589

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To make a call to Sue in  Kenya from a landline for just 7p per minute, please dial 0871 802 9900 726 022621

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Sponsored Child Scheme

Sponsored Child BarkeOver the past eight years we have worked very hard at our Sponsored Child Scheme. We are delighted with the response and success if this scheme. Over half the population at school now have sponsors. All the Kindergarten children who need sponsors now have them. The primary section is very well supported. The Secondary School also has many people who sponsor 50% of the school fees. This we feel gives the incentive to the older students and their parents to support their own lives, and be partly responsible for their own destiny.  'Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and he feeds himself for life.'
 
This scheme will always be a great part of our work, but we must now move on to the future Happy House Kids. The orphans at school who are being cared for by relatives, siblings or just neighbours in conditions that are often very unsatisfactory will become Happy House Kids. Many other children who will come to the Happy House will be babies whose mothers have died in childbirth, from HIV, Aids, malaria, or one of the many other  diseases that these people have to contend with one day to day basis.  Some of the children who are at this moment sleeping rough begging for food, with no hope of tomorrow. These are the children we must now turn our attention to. Children who have nothing and
no-one.........except us.... ...and now you.
 
Children coming to the Happy House will have little experience of family or any sense of belonging.
To ensure they grow up with love and care, beyond that provided within the Happy House, each will have four sponsors contributing to their upbringing materially and emotionally.
By making a monthly donation, sponsors will be helping to secure the future of the Happy House, thus giving their sponsor child a safe and loving home, but they will also be giving their child a feeling of "family" of knowing that he or she has people who care beyond their immediate home.
Each group of sponsor will receive regular updates on their child and will be able to help them build happy memories of their childhood through letters and photographs about themselves and their own families and their own lives. A memory box will be kept for each child, so when they are old enough to open their box they will know that someone does care, that they are not alone in this world.
Presents, both of practical items or toys, will always be welcome, of course. Especially for birthdays and Christmas. Sponsors are encouraged to come to Watamu to meet their sponsor child and to see for themselves how their child is thriving in the Happy House where nothing is more important than the individual welfare of each and every child.
By having more than one sponsor per child, sponsors will also gain a feeling of community. We will, with their permission, put them in touch with each other. They can enjoy following the progress of their child together, making mutual decisions on gifts, and by taking letters and presents from the others when visiting Watamu, which may be out of reach for some.
A group of sponsors will also ensure a continuity of care.  Of course, circumstances change and sometimes sponsorship comes to an abrupt end. Our children will already have been through more in their little lives than anyone should have to endure in a lifetime, we want to do all we can to make sure that they will never feel alone or abandoned again.
By giving each their own family of sponsors, if one has to drop out their child's sense of loss will be cushioned by the care provided by the others.

Sponsorship is so rewarding for the child and the sponsor we want to make it memorable ... and to create memories that both will cherish for the rest of their lives.

We are now in the fantastic position of having some of the  funds to build the Happy House due to very generous donations from Nyumbani UK, Coca-Cola Africa, Zurich, Scott Bader and The Jephcott Trust, and all the people who have done slims, runs, swims etc etc. You know who you are Thank you to everyone it is fantastic what has been achieved.

Not only do we have to build the Happy House we have to equip it for 100 children from birth to whatever the age of children who need our help and support. These children will need beds and linen, cups, plates, everything that your children need in your home. We need cookers, fridges, washing machines, water boilers, irons, and so much more.

Please set up a monthly  standing order for £10 or £20 it will help us to furnish and finish. When the Happy House is up and running the monthly donation will then be used to provide  the day to day needs of the child you will  be  sponsoring. 'Your'  child will be introduced to you through pictures and email. Regular updates will be sent of the child that you are saving from a life of poverty and despair. You will see your child grow to be a Happy healthy confident individual, who will hold their head high and say 'I'm a Happy House Kid '

The monthly standing order can be downloaded via this link . Please fill in your form and send it to your bank. If you would then email Sue with all your details, name address, phone number email. amount and start date.  If you require and further information please ring Elizabeth Gomm on 07905130589  Please visit our Wish List you may wish to sponsor a child as a present for a loved one. 

E-mail address - sue@childrenofwatamu.net

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Children Of Watamu,
Sue Hayward,
C/O Elizabeth Gomm.
6, Burwood Drive.
Blackpool
FY3 8NS

 

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These are just 2 of the children of the 200 children who currently have sponsors.

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