Recent news from Kenya December 2022

November update from Kenya

Every month one of our trustees in the UK has a conversation with the chairman of the trustee board in Kenya. This is the latest update

We have organised our prayer requests into a daily schedule to help you with your prayers, which we very much appreciate. DAY 1 Please...

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...

After two terms and ten years in power, President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya is standing down from Office as president. Elections to choose...

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....

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...

Following the success last Autumn of our first Meeting with our Kenyan colleagues using the popular Videoconferencing platform Zoom...

Further to our December article " 'Out' with Orphanages, In with community based care" Happy Homes continues to support the Kenyan...

I am writing to express my sincere gratitude to you for your generous Happy Home Orphanage Scholarship towards my education.

Incredibly, none of the children or members of staff or trustees have been affected by covid.

Happy Home still employs one person to oversee the planting of maize and beans which constitute a major part of their diet.

As reported previously, Happy Home has started its own Primary School in September 2019. At its inception the school started with just 5...

Due to the closure of all schools in Kenya because of the pandemic, the government have decided that from the beginning of September...

In a major development, the Kenyan Government decided in 2020 that they wished to see children living in their birth communities...

One other major change to the way we are now able to communicate with more people has been in the development of our website.

Like many others, since the start of Covid 19 the UK trustees of Happy Home have been encouraged to embrace the latest technology.

Schools in Kenya are presently preparing to lengthen the term time that children attend school. This is to help children to catch up...

Kisumu County where Kopere is situated, the site of Happy Home, had been spared large numbers of cases however the new Delta variant,...