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Mark Booth and Andy Makin are Happy to help

Tuesday, 23 June 2009

Elizabeth Gomm

Mark Booth and Andy Makin are Happy to help

Mark Booth the owner of Blackpool print & design company Minuteman Press has supported our work with the children over the past few years. Andy Makin who is the designer at the...

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Blankets with cuddles in them for the Happy House Children

Sunday, 21 June 2009

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Blankets with cuddles in them for the Happy House Children

Andrea Manders contacted me to say she had crocheted 17 small blankets for the Happy House Children. Andrea brought them today and they are gorgeous,all very soft and brightly colored. Ideal...

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The Happy House has Floors & Windows

Tuesday, 16 June 2009

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These pictures has been received today from Rose in Watamu. How amazing to see the windows are going in and the floors are being laid. It is fantastic. Thank you to...

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Happy House Garden

Tuesday, 16 June 2009

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The sun doesn't always shine in Watamu. At the moment the rain is very heavy. It's hard for the children walking or riding their bikes to school. In the morning the rain is...

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Aston and Cote Cof E Primary School Oxfordshire

Tuesday, 09 June 2009

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Aston and Cote Cof E Primary School Oxfordshire

I was very pleased when Simon Emmett asked me visit Aston and Cote Primary School near Bampton Oxfordshire. Earlier this year Simon set himself the challenge of swimming 100 kilometers in 100 days...

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Lytham High & Performing Arts College Are Going to Watamu.

Monday, 15 June 2009

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Lytham High & Performing Arts College Are Going to Watamu.

Lytham High & performing Art College have been supporting our work for the last few years all thanks to Louise Anderson who was a pupil at Heyhouses Primary School . When...

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Charity Psychic Night

Sunday, 07 June 2009

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Everyone is welcome to a Psychic Night at the Cliffs Hotel, Queens Promenade Blackpool on Monday the 22nd of June at 7.30pm. Four mediums have agreed to give their services free...

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Singleton School are flush with ideas

Tuesday, 02 June 2009

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Headteacher Sandra Foulkes is collecting 20 pences after issuing a half term fundraising challenge to pupils for the Gazette Eve in Africa Appeal for Children of Watamu's Happy House Orphanage.Sandra...

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Looking Good

Saturday, 25 July 2009

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Everytime I see the Happy House I think it really didn't look this big on paper!!

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Oh Happy Days

Friday, 24 July 2009

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Since I posted pictures of the Happy House on the 14th of July, so much has changed in such a short space of time. The outside is now being painted. The...

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The Maize is Amazing

Friday, 24 July 2009

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Some of the children from school check out the maize growing at the Happy House to see if it is ready for school lunches. Not yet Kids!!

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Lytham High School are Travelling Home Today

Friday, 17 July 2009

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Lytham High School are Travelling Home Today

I know there will be many sad faces today as the treachers and students from Lytham High School leave Watamu for Mombassa Airport on the first stage of their journey home....

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The Happy House is beautiful

Tuesday, 14 July 2009

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These are some of the latest pictures of the Happy House. All the doors and windows are in, most of the floors are laid, the roof is ready to go on....

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Is this how your children survive?

Tuesday, 14 July 2009

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The sun doesn't always shine in Watamu. These pictures show children just trying to cross a road. This water becomes stagnant and full of infections and mosquitoes.

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Elizabeth Meets Grandpa Yaa & enjoys a fresh coconut

Monday, 13 July 2009

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Elizabeth Meets Grandpa Yaa & enjoys a fresh coconut

Elizabeth was thrilled to meet Grandpa Yaa, and Grandpa never known for being camera shy insisted on a picture. He also asked one of his grandsons to cut a fresh coconut...

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Eve in Africa Appeal

Monday, 13 July 2009

Elizabeth Gomm

I am so grateful to Elizabeth Gomm the Womens Editor at the Blackpool Gazette for joining me on my latest trip to Watamu to see how the money raised by people...

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Singleton Primary School Make a Splash

Monday, 13 July 2009

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Class 3 of Singleton Primary School held a sponsored water bucket carry around the school field and have managed to raise approximately £500. The event was organised by Teaching Assistant...

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Louise takes the Children of Watamu to the Brownies

Thursday, 25 June 2009

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Louise takes the Children of Watamu to the Brownies

Louise Anderson who took our work for the children to Lytham High School from Heyhouse's Primary School, now has gone one step further and introduced our children to her Rainbow/Brownie GroupLouise...

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To Top It All

Friday, 18 September 2009

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The roof in now in place, the celings are being put in the upstairs bedrooms, we are moving closer by the day to being ready for the children in for January 2010.

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Louise Gary & Grace Webster visit the Happy House

Friday, 18 September 2009

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Louise Gary & Grace Webster visit the Happy House

Louise has supported our work for the children in many ways over the years. During their recent holiday to Turtle Bay Beach Club Louise helped Rose to make a new notice...

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