You Can Still Smile!

About a year or so ago, we made a donation to the Crane Academy in Kenya through the Royal High School in Bath. The Academy is the school’s main charity. We had received a chunk of money back from the pension that we had set up for Evie and wanted to use some of it to do some good.

The Crane didn’t have separate changing facilities for the younger girls, and they used the money to build some. Quite unknown to us, they painted this tribute to Evie on the wall. Evie would have thought it was hilarious that she had a set of toilets named after her. On Facebook this morning, the memory from a year ago popped up and it made me smile and laugh. Those toilets only exist because Evie isn’t here, but it still made me smile. I can still smile. The ludicrousness of it all would appeal to Evie’s sense of humour.

But more than that, the younger girls at the Crane don’t have to play second fiddle to the older ones any more, and that makes a difference. It in no way compensates for the loss of our beautiful daughter and I would still give anything to have her back. But at least it is something positive, and permanent. A bunch of girls in Kenya, who until the Summer of 2018 had never heard of Evie Clover now see her name every day.

And that is most definitely worth a smile. Even though tears are rolling down my face while I write this.