Summer 2022 prayers for Happy Home
We have organised our prayer requests into a daily schedule to help you with your prayers, which we very much appreciate. DAY 1 Please...
- Jun 29
Further education - helping young people into work. Can you help?
In Kenya it is very difficult to obtain employment unless a family member can either offer you a job in their business or in the place...
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- Jun 28
Political changes and consequences for ordinary citizens
After two terms and ten years in power, President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya is standing down from Office as president. Elections to choose...
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- Jun 28
Farming
Unlike farming in the UK where our farmers are more likely to suffer from floods and flooding, in Kenya water is constantly at a premium....
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- Jun 28
Return to three-term school year
The Kenyan Government has taken the decision that it will be the right time to return to a three-term school year from January 2023. This...
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- Jun 28
Shrinking the World
Following the success last Autumn of our first Meeting with our Kenyan colleagues using the popular Videoconferencing platform Zoom...
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- Jun 28
Transformation to an alternative family care model
Further to our December article " 'Out' with Orphanages, In with community based care" Happy Homes continues to support the Kenyan...
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- Dec 15, 2021
Message from Grace, one of our Happy Home graduates
I am writing to express my sincere gratitude to you for your generous Happy Home Orphanage Scholarship towards my education.
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- Dec 7, 2021
Health
Incredibly, none of the children or members of staff or trustees have been affected by covid.
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- Dec 7, 2021
Farming
Happy Home still employs one person to oversee the planting of maize and beans which constitute a major part of their diet.
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- Dec 7, 2021
The New School at Happy Home
As reported previously, Happy Home has started its own Primary School in September 2019. At its inception the school started with just 5...
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- Dec 7, 2021
Education
Due to the closure of all schools in Kenya because of the pandemic, the government have decided that from the beginning of September...
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- Dec 7, 2021
Kenyan Social Care: 'Out' with Orphanages, in with Community based care
In a major development, the Kenyan Government decided in 2020 that they wished to see children living in their birth communities...
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- Dec 7, 2021
Our new website!
One other major change to the way we are now able to communicate with more people has been in the development of our website.
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- Dec 7, 2021
Happy Home Kenya Trust embracing new technology
Like many others, since the start of Covid 19 the UK trustees of Happy Home have been encouraged to embrace the latest technology.
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- Jul 28, 2021
School
Schools in Kenya are presently preparing to lengthen the term time that children attend school. This is to help children to catch up...
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- Jul 28, 2021
Covid 19
Kisumu County where Kopere is situated, the site of Happy Home, had been spared large numbers of cases however the new Delta variant,...
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- Jul 13, 2021
Happy Home Education Centre, Kopere
(Ed: Please note this project has been funded wholly within Kenya, no Happy Home funds from UK have been consumed , although funded...
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- Jul 13, 2021
Increasing self-sufficiency and nutrition at Happy Home
In March maize and beans were planted in readiness for the ‘long rains’ which usually arrive anytime during the month of April.
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- Apr 1, 2020
How Happy Home is dealing with Covid-19
Within a few days of this conversation, as a result of the COVID_19 epidemic, all schools and further education establishments in Kenya...
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