A Christmas prayer for Mama Sue
Our forever-loved Mama Sue is always in the hearts and minds of our Happy House family. This Christmas, our first since her sudden passing in July, she has been in everyone's thoughts...
Santa delivers
With almost 60 children in the Happy House family, Santa certainly needs a trusty elf to help him deliver. ] And with key organisational skills, he has every parcel labelled and ready to hand out once...
Children bag a bonus gift
Our children in the Happy House family were all thrilled with the Christmas gifts they received from Santa. And then Papa Dave surprised them by asking if they'd like another present. The answer was a...
Santa arrives at Happy House
It's a long way from the North Pole to Kenya, so Santa can be excused for taking an extra couple of days to arrive there. The family at the Happy House had spent their time getting ready to give...
Christmas DJ Florence
Our Happy House kids were all ready to party when their special Christmas treat day arrived yesterday. They had put so much energy and effort into preparations for the big day - and Santa's arri...
Christmas breakfast
Today, the Happy House family is celebrating Christmas - starting with a special breakfast of sweet bread. And the children were yesterday busy preparing for their special party day by making the brea...
Homemade decorations
The older Happy House boys spent yesterday trimming the big banda ready for their Christmas party. That started off with making their own decorations from plaited palm as Morphin tells us. ...
Coaching our acrobats
Acrobatics have been a firm favourite with our children ever since Mama Sue invited a team she saw performing in Malindi to visit Happy House to enteratin. They went down so well that they offer...
Christmas lunch made with love
Chicken pilau is always the first choice for any special lunch at Happy House. It's the children's favourite and so it is that they chose for Christmas lunch. As we try to ensure as many of our ...
Lunch made with love - 2
Chicken pilau is always the first choice for any special lunch at Happy House. It's the children's favourite and so it is that they chose for Christmas lunch. As we try to ensure as many of our ...
Merry Christmas
Our Happy House children would like to wish all our friends a very Merry Christmas. We hope you enjoy your day, wherever in the world you may be.
Happy Christmas and thanks from Papa Dave
This has been saddest year for Papa Dave and all the Happy House family. The loss of our beloved Mama Sue has left us with a gap in our hearts, and our home, that is impossible to fill. But we c...
Bank brings lunch for our children
Our Happy House family had a lovely day when visitors from Kenya Women Bank brought us an early Christmas. The lovely representatives from the bank wanted to treat the children to lunch and...
Choir contest
In our Happy House blog earlier today we mentionedthe choirs contest staged for visitors from Kenya Women Bank. Here's a glimspe of the action.
Snail mail!
We've all heard of snail mail, but right now in Kenya it is taking months for letters and packages from overseas to arrive. In fact, it is so slow that a card for one Happy House kid for her bir...
Happy birthday to our friend Fulvio
Happy House has many wonderful friends in Italy and one of them is Fulvio Bestetti. Fulvio has recently celebrated his 60th birthday and very kindly asked his friends to donate to the Happy House...
How we will celebrate
Our children at Happy House will be having a really special Christmas - Papa Dave is determined it will be as memorable as every one they've had before. Losing Mama Sue so suddenly and so tragically i...
No Papa, you can't have all the apples!
Papa Dave has the affection and friendship of so many Happy House supporters. So much so that we are sure Anne Summers, a great friend of one of our oldest friends, Brenda Groves, that we know s...
Swahili class for Peter
Our Happy House visitor, Peter Reid, has been to Kenya many times and has picked up a few words of the common language, Swahili. But on this trip he's getting serious. Peter, Uncle Peter to our ...
Rehearsing for church
When you are ging to siging in church it's good to be word perfect. Our Happy House kids enjoy going to church and in hi video Saidi tells us that they are rehearsing a song they have been asked to si...
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