Events In order to raise money for the project, we organize various fund- raising events.

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Happy Children's Home 2011 Christmas Sales : ♥ 6 December 2011, CERN & 14 December 2011, WHO ♥ 25 June 2011: Nepalese Dinner We are very lucky to have a wonderful Nepalese friend, Jolie Pradhan, who, with her friend Gauri, agreed to cook a Nepalese dinner for as many people as we could tempt to taste their national specialities. Already the day before, Jolie had started preparing and the entire next day she and Gauri cooked together from early morning. Forty of our supporters came; a wonderful response to our invitation. Jolie's experience in organizing big dinners was extremely useful. We were very lucky as even the weather was on our side and people could stay in Mette's garden until late at night. It was an excellent evening and a most enjoyable dinner.

♥ March 2011 : CERN ATLAS experiment A very special event took place at CERN (URL) at the end of March 2011: we received a large donation from the ATLAS experiment. A group of scientists from ATLAS created a DVD and two wonderful CDs called ATLAS Music Resonance (http://atlas-music-resonance, or web.cern.ch/atlas-music-resonance), interpreting anything from classical music to jazz, pop and even their own compositions. None of them had ever done anything like this before. The work was much harder, and took longer than, expected, but nothing stopped their enthusiasm. When sales started in December 2010, it was a huge success: by March 2011 they had already sold over 900 CDs, with the proceeds going to the Happy Children's Home. The donation will go towards the purchase of a piece of land to create a vegetable garden and playground. Many, many thanks for this amazing present. We hope subsequent sales will be just as successful.

♥ 24 November 2010, WHO , 8 December 2010, CERN: HCH Christmas sales Our now annual Christmas sales in WHO (www.who.int) and CERN (www.cern.ch) were a huge success. On sale were 2011 calendars, Christmas greeting cards, various photos, watercolour paintings and Himalayan travel books. It was extremely heart-warming to see so many supporters return with such interest in our progress, and enthusiasm to yet again donate generously to the children's home. Part of the funds raised will be used to purchase school supplies and furnish the rooms for the 4 new children arriving in Spring 2011. The remainder has been ear-marked and put aside towards the purchase of a plot of land to be used as a vegetable garden and playground. We hope that this goal will be achieved in the course of 2011/2012.

♥ 29 September 2010 : Concert in Barcelona, Spain Ramon and Monica learned about the orphanage from Sandip in Nepal. They wanted to help, created an non profit organization "SOS-3" in Spain, then organized a concert in Barcelona to raise money for our orphanage. A lot of work went into this project, getting 3 different bands, renting the concert hall, making T-shirts, pins, posters etc. It was an amazing success, more than 650 people came, an unforgettable evening. Many thanks to everybody who helped make this event possible.

♥ 26 September 2010 : Crozet second-hand sale ! Once again Happy Children's Home charity participated in a "fantastic second-hand inter-communal sale". in the centre of Crozet. Thank you for coming to encourage our committee members selling all kinds of beautiful, interesting and useful donated objects. As usual every centime made at the sale went to the orphanage.

♥ August 2010: To our surprise two of our loyal supporters celebrated their birthdays by asking all their guests to contribute to the childrens home instead of bringing gifts. Both events well attended and the generosity of the invitees was well beyond our hopes.

♥ 6 December 2009 A delicious fund-raising Raclette CMS dinner chez Mette for 18 people. Different types of cheese, potatoes with cold cuts and lots of French wine. It was difficult to find space for deserts. The participants were very generous in their donations and supportive of the whole mission, showing a keen interest in the project's current status and plans for the future.

♥ 4 & 16 December 2009: Christmas Sales at CERN and WHO We sold new photos, Christmas greeting cards, five different types of calendars, Himalayan travel books (gift from D. Traille), and paintings (gifts from G. Lorch and F. Benalycherif) . Just like the last year, CERN people were very generous! All collected money will go into equipping the orphanage.

The day started with rain, but then the sunshine came and with it hundreds of people. Many thanks to all those who donated their unused objects, to the people who cleaned, loaded, arranged, sold, packed and advertised as well as to all the friends of HCH who came to browse, buy, chat or simply encourage us.

♥ 9 August 2009 - Helenka Przysiezniak-Frey ran the Sierre-Zinal race. .(http://www.sierre-zinal.com) Many famous runners from all over the world participated this year. Helenka ran really well: she ranks 8th in her category FII, She arrived 319th in the overall homme/femme category out of 3842 participants. She can be very proud of her achievment, and we thank her for helping to raise money for our Happy Children's Home. ♥ 25 April 2009: Spring sale at the Holy Trinity Church, Geneva. books, marmalade, jams, bric-a-brac, Watercolors, pictures, cards, photos and - refreshments too!

♥ February 2009 we organized a Jazz concert, in the Kentucky Dance Club in Prevessin, generously rented to us for a symbolic price for the event. . click on pictures to enlarge

♥ The first events, Christmas Sales at the World Health Organization (WHO) and in CERN, took place in December 2008 and January 2009 We sold watercolors, photos, cards, greeting cards, calendars... . At the CERN sale we also offered the possibility to sponsor windows, doors, furniture and bricks....