Basketball is the best
All our Happy House kids enjoy ball games, but for Diana basketball is the best. ,She plays at her high school, and has her sights set on being top of her game.
Mwende’s career choice
Mwende has always been a caring girl. ,She joined our family in 2010 when she was just a toddler and she has always been kind to all her sisters and brothers. ,Now, in her penultimate year of secondary school, she tells us of her career ambition and it comes as no surprise.
Phil’s tidy-up team
We would like to be perfect, but at Happy House we are a family and that makes perfection improbable! ,With 50+ children, from toddlers to teens, in our care it’s hard to keep everything tidy all the time. ,Inevitably, there are things that are left randomly when they should have been put away. ,A Saturday […]
Magic of manure
Happy House gardener Unlce Tevin is in his element now he has a delivery of well rotted manure. ,Growing crops all yea round can exhaust the soil and he’s looking forward to enriching it with the manure so that futiure crops will bring maximum yield.
Role models
It’s lunchbreak at Happy House School, and three of our boys are keen to greet you. ,Morphin ,Saidi and Brian see themselves as role models to the younger ones which shows they have a good sense of responsibility.
Science of the soil
Happy House kid Edward takes us into his class garden at school to show us where the latest crops are growing. ,The students sowed water melon seeds last term which are now bearing fruit after some careful nuturing. ,They also have some pumpkins but they are nhot ready to harvest quite yet.
Hard work paying off
Happy House kid Morphin knows that only hard work will bring good results. ,And in his start of term exam he has attained the improved position of being number eight in class. ,Morphin had hardly had any education when he came into our care as a youngster so we are proud of the capable and […]
Enthusiastic volunteers find students keen
Volunteers George Mann and Kieran Sparkes are now in the third of five weeks with our family at Happy House. ,And they are thoroughly enjoying assisting with lessons in our school in their specialist subjects, maths, science and English. ,The two men, from Norfolk, are finding their students willing and enthusiastic to learn. ,SAFE AND […]
Florences races ahead
Florence likes hairdressing and barbering and has plenty of heads on which to practice her skills. at Happy House. ,This weekend trustee Phil Marshall piut his head in her capable hands and she did a very good job of giving him a haircut.
Operation clean up!
At Happy House we do our absolute best to keep everywhere looking spick and span. ,But, inevitably, with 50+ children in the family and winds that can blow all sorts in, we do get some rubbish around our four acre compound. ,On Saturday, trustee Phil Marshall and some of the kids went on a litter pick and […]