Meet Our Founder
Anne Waigi - Founder
I started this “organization” in 2021 November. At the time, I encountered Okoth’s (Emily’s deceased husband) family that comprised of Emily, a widow who is dumb, deaf and a mother of 6 children staying with her sick sister who is also a mother of two children. Emily’s sister had suffered a stroke that left her paralyzed. When visiting a friend who lives in Boston USA, her Mum Esther who is 86-year-old woman was supporting Okoth’s family in various ways. Esther was at the time helping Okoth’s family members to exterminate Jiggers that had invested all of them and treating the wounds.
Esther has no income but the little she got from well- wishers for her upkeep, she would use it to assist this family.
I decided to take over from her, but I initially; I thought a hundred dollars would be all that I would need to feed the family per month with for food and upkeep which converted to twelve thousand Kenya shillings then.
When I took over, I sent someone to the home to get more details. He found out the children were between the ages of 8 – 19 years and all of them were out of school for lack of School Fees.
It really touched me, and I started enrolling them in School one by one. By God’s grace, all of them are now enrolled and have been attending School for a whole year.
When I visited the family of Okoth this year in February, I met four other orphans left under their grandmother’s care in the village of Sokomoko in western Kenya.
Their parents died of Aids and they needed help with school fees. I stepped in again and now the financial burden was beyond me. I have a total of twenty-five children in Kenya besides the ones am supporting in Zambia. I wouldn’t forget another boy by the name Reagan who performed very well with distinctions in Kenya in his grade 8 and had not been enrolled to Secondary School due to lack of school fees too. His dream is to be a doctor. I had to step in too for him and is now enrolled in Secondary School. This is just to show you our impact on these children’s future.
While at a religious mission in Kenya, I met a young girl by the name of Deborah from Zambia. She was a high school graduate of 2019 who attained ‘A’ grades in all subjects and was appointed to join the University of Zambia medical School. Unfortunately, the mother is a window and could not afford the money to enroll her, and she had stayed at home for two years. When I met her in Kenya, she was praying for a miracle so that she could find a sponsor to help her pursue her medical career at the University of Zambia. I stepped in and thank goodness she is now a 2nd-year medical student.
Her sister also needed to go to Law school and due to the same challenges, she had not enrolled in college, and I had to assist her too. The two sisters have a young cousin who lost her mother and was unfortunately being abused by her grandmother and aunties. I had to assist her too. While on a mission trip in Zambia last year 2022, I met two children, a 7-year-old boy and a 12-year girl whose mother is living indecent lifestyle unfortunately and cared less to adequately feed them or even take them to school. Again, I had to step in and sponsor their needs including house rent, food and school fees. Ethan 7-year-old wants to be a pilot, and Joyce 12 years old wants to be a Lawyer.
With this kind of pressing needs from vulnerable and needy children whose needs keep coming, I started this charitable organization called ‘The Love of the Father foundation to support these children and woman who are in dire need of basic living necessities. I have been funding these needs alone and a few times friends and family have stepped in to help. Am highly involved in these children’s lives and I encourage them and give them moral and financial support to enable them to pursue their dreams. Am appealing to all well-wishers to join me and partners or one-time givers to carry out this noble task.