Thursday 14 November 2013

Delivering Santa smiles

Flashback to 2012
 Santa's little helpers wasted no time in responding to his appeal for help!
Parcels full of lovely items for our children have started arriving at the Happy House and are being spirited away to Santa's storeroom ready for the big day.
Mama is so delighted,   our Santa has such a job on his hands finding gifts for 78 children that he needs all the help he can get!
Top of his wish list are books - we have so many avid readers that we can never have enough, fact or fiction,  plus dvds, pc games and new summer-weight clothing, bags for our girls etc.
Books, dvds and pc games are great because both the child who receives one as a gift and their brothers and sisters all get to enjoy them.
Christmas is such a magical time and it is by making wonderful memories at times like these that we can help to erase some of the traumas our children have suffered in the past.
2012: Bags of love
So please keep your parcels coming. Everything is so gratefully received and with children aged from, a few months to 16, will be suitable for someone.
But, like last year, we are sorry it won't be possible  to acknowledge every individual parcel, but for birthdays and individual letters etc to sponsor children you will always get a reply.. 
You know how much we appreciate your  friendship, your love and your kindness.
If you would like to help Santa deliver a sackful of smiles to our children please send your parcel to Sue Hayward's Happy House, PO Box 796, Watamu, Kenya, East Africa.
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
STOCKING FILLERS
If you are looking for a stocking filler for a relative or friend maybe a Happy House calico bag would fit the bill?
they are £5 each (+70p postage and packaging in the UK) available online via  ebid page http://uk.ebid.net/for-sale/reusable-recycled-cotton-fabric-shopping-bag-children-of-watamu-happy-house-117121165.htm
or if you are on the Fylde Coast and would like to collect please email elizabethgomm@childrenofwatamu.net