Lynn McCluskey & Josephine

This week I employed a nursery teacher called Josephine, she is great with the children they are all learning so fast. She is pictured here with Lynn helping with their sums. The children are sat in the outside banda built by Marco Narizzano and his friends last year. We are waiting for our third container to be delivered hopefully later today then we will have desks and chairs for the children that have been sent by Terry Burns and his charity Furniture for Education Worldwide. Terry and a group of friends are travelling to Watamu for the official opening and to see the difference their donations have made to the Happy House Kids.

 

In time we hope to be able to build more bandas to be used as classrooms.

 

 

Baking Bread at the Happy House

Lynn Mcclusky and Sue helped  by some more vounteers to bake some bread in the new bread baking machine donated by Val Black and Alistair.

 

 

Lynn McCluskey Arrives at the Happy House

I was delighted when Lynn asked if she could come out to Watamu and volunteer to help with the Happy House Kids. This is what she has to say.

 

 

I raised £650 for the Happy House project by ' Swimming a Mile to Make a Child Smile' , so I was really pleased to arrive in Watamu and hand over the money in person to Sue and her kids. I'm volunteering at the Happy House for 3 weeks to help Sue and everyone with this wonderful, amazing but exhausting experience!! Volunteers are going to be a vital life line for Sue and the Happy House. There is so much to do running a home for lots of  children , but I can honestly say anyone who does volunteer will find it's the most rewarding work they ever do. I know it has changed my life forever. Although learning all the children's names has been an undertaking for someone who was know for being bad at names. But the children are a delight and are so very happy. I'm amazed at how quickly they are settling into their beautiful new home. The hardest part for me is yet to come, saying good bye to Sue & the Happy House Kids !!!    

Happy In Marco's Banda

 

Last year an Italian guy called Marco Narizzano generously donated money that had been collected from friends colleagues and family to build this banda that the children now love to play in.They are in the fresh air but very importantly also in the shade. As we get more established it will be used as an outside classroom for the Nursery children, we hope in time to be able to build some more.

Posh Reception

 

The children were the first to try the new seating in the reception. They are all so happy as you can see by this picture.

Happy House Bedrooms

 

We now have the curtains and bedcovers in the bedrooms, everything is looking light, bright and of course Happy. The curtains were very generously donated by Swatchbox Curtains.

Happy Kids go to School

Our first 3 children started school today From left to right Janet, Sifa and Evans. We have ordered the rest of the unforms and need to take them for news shoes into Malindi at the weekend.

 

So many times I have written about the Happy House Kids but to say to the children this morning, 'When you are asked at school where you are from, you hold your head high and say 'I'm a Happy House Kid' I felt so proud of them.