The Happy Life Story: Saving abandoned children on the streets of Nairobi - 2nd Edition

The Happy Life Story: Saving abandoned children on the streets of Nairobi by Sharon Emecz documents the development of the Happy Life Children’s Home project near Nairobi, Kenya. This is a fully updated second edition.

Key details

• Second edition, fully updated
• ISBN: 9781787052697
• Royalties support Happy Life Children’s Home
• Covers progress from 2014 to 2018
• Includes new stories, case studies, and updates on the school and children’s hospital

Synopsis

This edition traces the history of an inspiring children’s home project, told through the perspective of Sharon Emecz, who took a career break after twenty years in corporate life in London and volunteered at Happy Life during a month in Africa. Founded in 2002, the home was established to provide abandoned children in Kenya with “a Home and a Hope for adoption”, and the book describes the work of a small group of people who have helped rescue hundreds of children and arrange adoptions into “Forever Homes”.

It also outlines the organisation’s current missions: rescuing children and enabling adoptions, providing a Christian education, and delivering paediatric care through the Jesse Kay Children’s Hospital. The account includes details of the two-campus set-up, with provision for infants to age three alongside the hospital, and facilities for older children including a church, the Happy Life Christian School, and three-bedroom homes.

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