Happy House Staff

With  great help from Sue Hayes we now have some staff organized for the Happy House. Rose who has worked with me at school for the past few years is now the Happy House Administrator ( far left ) Rose helped with organizing the interviews. We have two cleaners, two house Mums, 2 aunties and a cook. They will be starting work on the 8th of February. It will be great for them to be able to organize the children's bedrooms and clothes themselves ready for the children to come home. Alice the cook is very enthusiastic and looking forward to learning how to bake cakes and biscuits and make fresh bread. All cooking here is done on open fires so to have an oven is a new  and exciting experience for Alice.

Grandpa

Our lovely Grandpa Yaa was there to supervise the unloading and at 91 years old he worked as hard as the young men. Grandpa is so proud of what has been achieved. Without his kindness and generosity in giving me the 4 acres of land there would be no Happy House.

Girl Power !

 

The ladies worked inside the Happy House stacking the matresses and organising the cartons.

The truck arrives at the Happy House

Every time the truck came down the road everyone was on board ready to unload. We could hear them coming before we could see them, singing and shouting.

At Last!!

On Thursday amongst great excitment our first container finally arrived! What a relief. The Country Boy broke the seal, when opened it was packed to the doors with beds, bedding, children's clothes and medical equipement, lockers and storage racks etc etc. Everything has been donated.

 

Due to the raod being narrow the lorry was unable to get onto the Happy House land so we had to hire a truck and transfer everything from the container to the truck. We employed lots of local people to help, they had a great time. As always the Country Boy was team leader with everyone laughing and shouting encouragement to each other. The boys were racing to see who could work the fastest the ones inside the container or the ones on the truck.

 

So now we have started to arrange the children's bedrooms and sort the clothes out. Our next cotainer is due in Mombasa on Sunday and the third one on the 15th of February. Fingers crossed we have sorted all the problems out for delivery.

The Counrty Boy

Dave, or as he is know to most of us, The Country Boy,  decided that we must make a start on the chicken run. We feel that we can start a small busines with the chickens and eggs. We can buy 200 chicks and in 12 weeks they will be ready for market. We are also having chickens just for eggs. If we can earn enough to the wages of the outside staff from this cottage industry it will be a great help. All those of you who have bought chickens, don't worry we are not going to eat those, they will be the ones for the eggs.

Busy getting ready

Dave & I went to the Happy at 8am this morning it was a hive of activity. The excitement is mounting as we move closer to being ready for our children to come home.

 

The girls were busy washing the floors, Gideon our gardener is putting the finishing touches to the gardens in the courtyard.