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01 Dec 09 - Latest on Sujit's trip to the UK - click here to view Fiji One's TV story. 23 Jun 09 - Raised by Chickens: Sometimes, an ordinary life is tuned upside down by one extraordinary event that changes everything. For Elizabeth Clayton, it was meeting the child known as Chicken Boy. Have you ever seen something so awful, so horrific, that you can't believe it's really true? Well, that's what happened to me on 28 November 2002. I'd gone with the Rotary Club to a local old people's home near where I lived in Fiji, to donate some furniture. I'd emigrated to the island 15 years ago to set up a furniture business. We'd just arrived when one of the other volunteers, Malini Raghwan, came running over. 'Have you see the Chicken Boy?' she babbled. 'Chicken Boy?' I replied, baffled. 'What are you talking about?' I didn't know what to expect as she led me to a dirty ward at the back of the home. But what I saw will haunt me forever. [more] 23 Jun 09 - Chicken Boy: Sujit Kumar "the chicken boy" who came to the limelight in 2003 for acting like a chicken and not uttering a word, is showing amazing progress after various tests and treatment by specialists in Brisbane, Australia. "Everyone is amazed with Sujit's progress over the past two years," spokesperson, Leslie Opie, said. "The one factor that most evident is how happy he is and how well he is responding to those around him. [article link] 18 Jun 09 - The Boy Who Was Tied Up For Life: [aired on Sky TV UK] Sujit Kumar spent the first few years of his life locked inside a chicken coop at his family's home in Fiji. But this was only the beginning of his nightmare upbringing. After being ‘rescued' by social services, he was placed in an old people's home where he spent the next 22 years anchored to a wall, deemed too feral and unmanageable for staff to care for. This moving documentary ... [more] 12 Dec 08 - Happy Home establishes new trust: The Happy Home will be establishing a new trust fund for Sujit Kumar known as Sujits Happy Home Charitable Trust. Elizabeth Clayton, of Happy Home, said the trust will be the custodian of the assets and donations made to the home. Ms Clayton said with lack of funds to cater for the boys at the shelter, they were thinking of closing it but donations from people have changed their mind. [more] 10 Oct 08 - When trust is all there is: Elizabeth Clayton believes in giving people second chances. "Some might say it is a risk employing ex-prisoners but I say it is a risk employing anyone and in my experience the risk has been well worth it," she said. "In fact, I am more concerned about employing someone who hasn't been in prison than I am about someone who has." ..... "I have found ex-prisoners to be loyal, honest and hard working," she said. [more] 10 Oct 08 - Rotary aids needy kids: Members of the Rotary Club of Suva yesterday visited the Suva Christian Community School. Club members made the visit to see how their support for the 14 underprivileged children enrolled at the school was contributing to their development. The club was invited by the Christian School to view the progress of the 14 children, many of whom live under the care of the Happy Home for Boys and former club president Elizabeth Clayton. Rotary said the children were doing well. Of particular concern to the group was the progress of Sujit Kumar. [more] October 08 - A Huge Thank You: A huge thank you to everyone in the Saint Kentigern Community who contributed in various ways to raise almost $2000 for Sujit Kumar and the Happy Home orphanage in Fiji. During their visit to Fiji earlier in the year, the Habitat for Humanity team visited the orphanage and met Sujit, popularly known as ‘Chicken Boy,’ the subject of a moving TV documentary. [more] July 2008 - Habitat for Humanity: The Fiji experience... After extensive preparation and collection of donated items, the 2008 Habitat for Humanity team flew to Fiji for two weeks during the July holidays.... this year, the team faced significant challenges from inaccurate and/or sub-standard building materials, coupled with ongoing delays in supply deliveries..... One of the silver linings in the cloud of the stalled house-building was that we had the pleasure of visiting the Suva Christian School, the work place of Elizabeth Clayton - a woman whose story our Year 11 students follow as part of their Christian Education programme. We were able to meet with her and Sujit Kumar (known to us and many New Zealanders as the ‘Chicken Boy’ through Rob Harley’s documentary, ‘Saving a Wild Boy’), as well as the other 15 or so boys she has rescued from very tragic circumstances to give them a much better chance at life. [more] Media prior to 2008: 2004 2005 2006 2007 Saving a Wild Boy
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