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Mum and daughter reunited

Mum and daughter reunited
A Happy House child, Samira, has been reunited with her parents for the first time in a number of years.  Circumstancs forced her mum, a Maasai, to leave her in the care of relatives and later wh...
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All kitted out

All kitted out
Our Happy House kids absolutely love their weekly online yoga sessions with the UAE based non-profit organisation My Little Zen.  And co-founder of My Little Zen Hayley Holuj has been back to Hap...
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Work experience

Work experience
Mwende and John have been gaining some work experience in the Happy House office. Auntie Rose, our administrator, has been showing them the basics of accounting and using Excel against the background ...
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The corn is as high ...

The corn is as high ...
Down on the plot where our Happy House Halfway House is being built, the spare land has been planted with maize. The children planted and tended the seeds, looking forward to a good crop once the rain...
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Time to play

Time to play
Happy House Husna is loving having some time off school. It's giving her a chance to play with her baby "sisters" Patience and Precious.  The twins came into our family in April along with their ...
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Screen clean

Screen clean
Rehema has been busy in her school break by helping to wash the netted windows that screen the bedroom windows at Happy House.  Having mesh screen is so important to keep mosquitoes at bay and th...
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Pride of place

Pride of place
A break from school is giving our Brian Hayward a chance to help around the Happy House.  He likes to help out where he can and here he is keeping the corridors swept and clean.  Our childre...
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Betty settles in

Betty settles in
Mwanahamisi, three, has been a member of our family for a couple of weeks now and has settled in well.  As her name is a bit difficult for some of our children to say we are calling her by the fa...
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Raising health awareness

Raising health awareness
Our Happy House children enjoyed a lesson on health awareness from a lovely visitor, Beatrice, from Bomu Hospital, Mombasa. She works with Project Sunshine which plays an integral role, in partnership...
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Abandoned baby comes to a loving home at Happy House

Abandoned baby comes to a loving home at Happy House
A tiny baby, find abandoned by the roadside, is being welcomed with great joy into the loving home and family that is our Happy House.  She was born on March 9, when she was found left by the roa...
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Music festival

Music festival
Some of our Happy House students have been taking part in an inter-school music festival.  And they set off with their eyes on coming back with a prize!
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Books for Mandarin students

Books for Mandarin students
As we have mentioned before, we have introduced Chinese Mandarin as a language subject at Happy House School.  China has become Kenya's biggest trading partner so we believe that equipping young ...
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Time to think

Time to think
On a day off school, Diana has time at home at Happy House to take some time for herself. She's taken herself to the smallest banda, furnised with wicker chairs and sofas, to reflect on her studies an...
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Brian on Barani

Brian on Barani
Brian Hayward has been a valued and much loved member of our family since the earliest days of Happy House. He started a new school in January, Barani Secondary School in Malindi, and in this video gi...
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Yoga date

Yoga date
Co-founders of My Littel Zen,Hayley Holuj and Lewis Hall, first visited our family last year to introduce and implement their yoga programme for our children  They were impressed with the work th...
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Rehema's song

Rehema's song
A lovely solo for you today from Happy House songbird, Rehema.
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Brian's birthday

Brian's birthday
Our boy Brian Hayward has just celebrated his birthday - an occasion when everyone can join in.  One of his sponsor family sent a donation to pay for a treat of his choosing for all the Happy Hou...
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Preparing the veg

Preparing the veg
We join Charity and Natasha in the Happy House kitchen on Saturday morning. After a busy week at school they are just happy to be relaxing and helping out at home. In the kitchen, they are helping to ...
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Handwashing at school

Handwashing at school
A new handwashing station has been installed at Happy House School.  This will make it much easier for children to wash their hands before meals, with sinks and taps put in a varying heights to s...
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Corn grows up and up

Corn grows up and up
In the weeks leading up the rains, every spare patch of ground in our region of Kenya is adopted by someone and planted with maize. Maize is the staple crop, but at Happy House we serve it as sweetcor...
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