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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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!
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Repairs to store
The garden store at Happy House is in need of repair. Uncle Ibrahim of our maintenance staff has been busy helping to get the water tank moved s that the workman coming in to do repairs can get ...
Welcome to Mwanahamisi
With warm heart and open arms the Happy House is welcoming a new child into our family. Mwanahamisi is just three years old and was brought to us by children's office social workers from Malindi...
Please can you help us to help Stephen, four
The lovely little family of four children who came into our care at Happy House in April is happy and settled. The older brothers Emmanuel and Stephen are enjoying school and speaking English, having ...
Karibuni
The Swahili word for "welcome' is said with warmth at Happy House. And we hope that our most recent visitors, Paula,and Neil Burns and Sallyann Wright from the UK felt every bit of the Kenyan su...
Keeping fit
Physical education not only keeps children fit and healthy it also helps their mental health and cognitive development. At Happy House School our students have a tough and demanding curriculum so a ch...
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