Derby/Shelton Rotary Supports "Happy House" Derby/Shelton Rotary Supports "Happy House" The Board of Directors voted a $300 Derby/Shelton Rotary Club contribution to the Haitian Health Foundation for the construction of a "Happy House" on the island.
Rotarians were shown pictures of the dwellings and received the following information about the project:
"The Haitian Health Foundation has begun funding the rebuilding or repair of the most dilapidated shacks. With the HHF Agents de Sante (health agents in each village) overseeing the repairs or sometime complete rebuilding, each house can be made reliveable for about $300.00 U.S. dollars. And, the joy expressed and seen on the faces of the children and their parents of the very first village family to inhabit their new home labeled it a Kay Konton (Happy house in Creole).
HHF provides the cement, lumber, tin for the roof, paint, doors and shelters. The homeowner supplies rock, sand and labor. Each house has a local mason and carpenter overseeing and often providing the skilled labor. Sad, dilapidated houses are made happy, gleaming with new floors, painted brightly and comfortable. Most importantly, Happy Houses restore dignity to the poor which should not have to live in dwellings not fit for animal habitation."
The board took the action as a further sign of its support of the international scope of Rotary. The Club had previously set aside $1,500 for another project in LaRomana following Ron East and Wayne Strever’s service trip earlier this year. Those funds have not been disbursed as yet because of a lack of information coming from LaRomana.
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