A sad time for Happy Life Family

Serving these children is so fulfilling. When we see children who come weak, sick, unhappy growing up to be healthy and happy children gives us a lot of joy. However, we also go through great challenges when some of these children die having served then with all diligence. This week baby Christian passed on at Kenyatta hospital where he had been admitted for 5 days. This boy was the youngest then 3 1/2 months old and everyone loved him so much. When such a thing happen, our hearts are full of pain, and very discouraged. Christian was one of those healthy babies and all of a sudden he gets sick and in 5 days, he is gone. pray for us that the Lord of all comfort will see us through this.

Rosemary Kamau

Four New Children - all about 1 - 1 1/2 year old.

Melvin
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Faith
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Toby
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Simon
This week we have admitted four new children (3 boys and a girl). They are all approximately 1- 1 1/2 years old. They had been rescued and taken to Nairobi Children's home before being placed to HLCH. Simon, Melvin, Toby and Faith.

Carol goes back to the family that rescued her

Carol was abandoned when she was about 4 months old outside a residential house one early morning. The owners of the house rescued her and reported the case to the police. They were told to stay with the child as the police try to investigate on the parents whereabouts but after a 3 months, they had not yet found the parents. They were then told to bring the child at Happy Life children's home although they really wanted to keep her. It has been hard for the adoption agency to decide on who was to adopt carol since several parents had applied to adopt her but they concluded that the family that rescued her and stayed with her for three months was the one to adopt her since they had bonded quite well and even for the time she was at Happylife, the adoptive mother used to visit her very often.

Rosemary Kamau

Prayers for Baby Aaron

Aaron is one year and one month old. He was admitted at Happy life when he was just one one week old. He was given his named Aaron by Miriam – a young volunteer from Switzerland who stayed with us for 3 months – saying he will name him Aaron as in the bible, Aaron was Miriam’s sister. Aaron is a very happy boy. He started developing some chest congestions last year and we took him to the hospital on several occasions and he would get treated but we thought that he would be asthmatic. Since then we have consulted several doctors, and most of them have had different opinions on what is supposed to be done to Aaron. We have done several tests of which some of them are quite expensive and different doctors have come up with different opinions, some advising for an operation some opposing it. The last report we got from a specialist who did some tests on him said that one of his kidneys has completely failed and needs to be removed. They could not identify what could have caused this since the kidney is not blocked. He has not given us a date on when this should be done but whatever the case; we all should pray for this dear boy that all will be well with him. The amazing thing is, he looks very healthy, he is growing normally and he has not had the chest congestion for a long time now. God is in control.

Rosemary Kamau

'Outing'

Today was the children vaccination day against measles for the children below five years. We decided to first take those who are between 2 -5 years old in a nearby clinic but they all thought they were going out for a walk. They all got new saddles which were quite annoying with this funny noise but this made them very excited for the outing. They could not even pause for a picture but little did they know that their outing was to go and get the measles shots in a nearby clinic. Their faces when going out and when they came in communicated it all. After the shots, they would pause for a picture but with these dull faces. Pole sana.

Rosemary Kamau
HLCH Admin

It's a big family

Children between 3-7 years.

Many of the children are adopted when they are 3 years and below. However, some are adopted when they are older than that but just a few. We hope that these children will get adopted into families. However, our vision is to have family units’ set-up where these children can be divided and be brought together in different families as they await adoption and if they will not be adopted, Happy Life is already their home. We need a lot of support to make this dream come true. Thanks for every partener’s support. Together we can make a difference

Rosemary Kamau

HLCH, Admin.

A volunteer playing with the children







Fred training the young ones.

One new baby boy 'Alvin'

Today, Baby Alvin got a home after having been abandoned on 13th April 2011. Alvin had been left by his mother to a very young school girl. The alleged mother lied to the girl that she was rushing to get something nearby and asked her to stay with the baby for a few minutes. Since then, the mother has never been traced. Alvin is about 6 months old and is healthy.

Rosemary Kamau