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19 Oct 07 - Fergs Kayaks helping in Fiji: Fergs Kayaks
are proud to be supporting a building project in Fiji for The Happy
Home Orphanage and under privileged children at The Happy School.
Currently this project is seeing playgrounds built in both
locations where before there was very minimal equipment for the
children to play with. Not only are these playgrounds going to
provide hours of fun for the children but they will be used by the
teachers in some of their charges rehabilitation. Sujit Kumar is
one such person who will benefit from this. [more]
23 Jun 07 - Islands' shameful secret: No one is starving
here, is the familiar but uncertain catchcry of Fiji's blue-collar
workers. Judging by the empty gin bottle outside a corrugated iron
shack in one of many squatter communities, or the
subwoofer-boasting stereo sitting under the rusty tin roof, they
may just be right. But poverty in Fiji relates not only to food but
to social conditions and the biggest impact is on children at the
bottom of the social hierarchy, many living in sharp contrast to
the exuberance of the beaming children seen in tourism promotions.
[more]
27 Apr 07 - IFCR Welcomes Fiji: Warwick Pleass, District
9920 Governor chose Suva in Fiji as the site for his 2007
Conference. He had recognised the youthful qualities of some Fijian
Rotary clubs and invited representatives of IFCR to organise a
conference event to launch the Fiji branch of the fellowship......
During the conference week the visitors learnt of the existence of
the Happy Home, an institution supported strongly by the Rotary
Club of Suva with their RC of Suva Sujit Foundation. The genesis of
this project was the discovery of Sujit Kumar who had been abused,
traumatised and living in distressing circumstances for many years.
The Happy Home was set up to accommodate Sujit and others from
similar backgrounds so that they would no longer live in such an
unhappy way. The Sujit Foundation was to be the vehicle for the
Rotary club’s support.
[more]
13 Apr 07 - Sujit on track to recovery: Happy Home
resident Sujit Kumar has returned from Australia on a medical trip
with the hope of improving his condition. Sujit captured the
media's attention after he was found in a coop with chickens under
his Waidalice home in Tailevu. Rotary Club of Suva Sujit Foundation
said Sujit completed a range of tests and Magnetic Resonance
Imaging (MRI) scans in Brisbane to determine the exact nature of
any brain damage possibly afflicting him. [more]
05 Apr 07 - Helping Sujit the 'chicken boy': We first
introduced you to Sujit Kumar one year ago. He has since become
known to millions around the world as "the chicken boy". As a baby
in Fiji, Sujit was orphaned and then left in a chicken coop to fend
for him. He is a so-called "wild child", a human with all the
traits of an animal. Now, Sujit has a second chance at life, thanks
to Australian widow Elizabeth Clayton, who has devoted herself to
helping him. [more]
20 Mar 07 - Test case for humanity: It was a simple
question, but with a very complex answer. The Year 7 lad looked
past Sujit Kumar's darting eyes and asked if the jockey-sized
34-year-old – who grew up with the tag of "chicken boy" – would
ever be able to speak. Elizabeth Clayton, the woman credited with
saving Sujit from his wretched life of abuse, received the question
in her usual spot: right by his side. "I hope so," she answered.
[more]
20 Feb 07 - The Good Mail, Rotary Club of West Brisbane
Daybreak Inc: One of the great things about being a Rotary Club
member is that we get the chance to become involved in experiences
that we would never have had in our normal day to day lives. One
such experience was through my membership of the Rotary Club of
West Brisbane Daybreak and the association with our sister club,
the Rotary Club of Suva in Fiji. During a business trip to Fiji in
early 2003 I was invited by Elizabeth Clayton, the President of the
Rotary Club of Suva, to visit the Samabula Old Peoples Home which
our Brisbane club was helping to support. During the visit I met
Sujit for the first time and was stunned when told of his history.
[more] [or take me to the full
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20 Jan 07 - The story of the Mowgli girl: Pitiful grunts
and squeals of anguish come from the wild creature caught in the
jungle of Cambodia.... This story echoes the tale of Sujit Kumar in
Fiji: Locked in a chicken coop shortly after his birth in 1973 and
found at the age of eight after his father died. He was tied to a
bed for the next 21 years because of his unpredictable behaviour.
[more]
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