The Good Life Orphanage

We have had to relinquish our crowns as “Queens of the Car Boot”; the Co. Tyrone contingent has taken over. Marie, Donna, Rosemary, Emma, Roisin, Fionnaulagh & Sinead are the new queens. They have surpassed our feeble attempts and are now very experienced & successful Car Boot Queens!!!



A special thanks goes to Pat Watters whose new garage is now Marie’s stock room for the car boots. There are clothes, children’s toys, prams, shoes and lots of bric a brac everywhere. Also Anton who arrange the display for the jewellery, which attracted lots of customers.
Well Done to you all xx

Because of the post election violence tourists have stopped visiting Kenya, there is a very serious knock on effect as many charitable projects have very little financial support, an email from Jackie told us different!! Our Ist Official Visitors were two very important & lovely people.


We are very lucky to have met some very good friends via Trip Advisor website, Edna & Brian Elliott hail from Plymouth. The support a local orphanage near ours The Lioness Cubs but still found time to visit our orphanage with food and gifts for the children and staff.


People like Edna and Brian are hard to find and we count ourselves very lucky to have their friendship.


We were amazed to receive these photos, it shows the progress of the children and our farm project.


Asanta Sana to Edna & Brian

Whilst we have been busy in Africa, our very strong support network has been raising money for the project through many different & diverse ways!!
Firstly Eamon & Audrey Maguire used their own interest in traditional Irish Music and dancing to organise a very successful night at St Patricks Hall, Dromore, Co. Tyrone. Never mind the endless rain & hail they sold all the tickets and showed the short DVD of the orphanage so far to get even more money.
Marie Watters & daughter Donna O’Neill tramped the streets of Tyrone selling tickets for a beautiful painting of an Easter Lily to raise funds again. The draw was made on with local councillor Anne Quinn.
Last but by no means least Vincent Maguire who organised a Gala Night in The Mellon Country Hotel outside Omagh. The MC was Gary O’Brien from TV Chanel ‘At the Races’
The forum consisted of Ferdy Murphy, trainer…Timmy Murphy, jockey. John Carr, Champion Hurdle winning trainer and Ireland’s top amateur Jason McKeown
Also present were legendary gambler Barney Curley, Mr Barney Eastwood; world boxing champion Dave Boy McCullagh, Tryone manager Mickey Harte, Tyrone footballing legend Frank Mc Guigan and a host of local personalities.
The night was a great success with a phenomenal amount of money raised.
It is the hard work of these people that ensure the development of the project and without them raising the funds we could only carry out limited work in Kenya.