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An American philanthropist is appealing to the government to help her recover millions of shillings she donated to an orphanage in Kenya.
Avis Goodheart claims her Kenyan partner Pastor Esther Wambui, who runs the children’s home, gave false information about the number of orphans she has been supporting.
The donor says Wambui lied to her that she takes care of 148 children at the orphanage, only to learn that she supports 18 orphans.
Speaking to Citizen TV on Wednesday, Goodheart noted that she has sent more than Sh20 million to support the orphans over the last four years, but Wambui disputes the figure, saying the American contributed Sh7 million.
Goodheart came to Kenya in 2017 to visit children's homes when she met Pastor Wambui and they entered into a partnership to support orphans at Noah’s Boat Goodheart Children’s Home in Migori.
The foreigner says she sent Wambui $1,000 every month in 2017 but they decided to buy a parcel of land for the orphanage in Isebania, Migori County the following year.
Goodheart helped to raise funds to build the orphanage until 2020 when she returned to the US due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I sent her lots of money and one of my sponsors gave $18,000 to buy a car, and the same week we sent $2,500 to buy a piece of property,” said Goodheart.
Goodheart now wants Wambui to return everything she has acquired with the money including parcels of land, car, cows, and chickens.
On her part, Wambui denies allegations of misusing the funds, saying everything she has done is above board.
“Goodheart was sending Sh100,000 per month, with Sh60,000 going towards food for the children and the rest to their education,” said Wambui.
“I have all the documents for the pieces of land I have purchased. I bought five acres and I have built on three acres.”
She claims that there is a group that is determined to take over the children's home, which she founded in 2007 to ensure orphans get educated and have a good life.
Goodheart has instructed her lawyers to file a case in court seeking reimbursement for all the money she has spent on the orphanage.
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I agree with you 99.999%. They're rotten and Worse than Hell.
You are your own keeper, and NONE will ever feel your pain. They lie.
The lady was kindly sponsoring orphans but got conned! She was trying to help out of the goodness of her her heart but she dealt with the Devil is the name of a pastor!
Those pastors are the worst conmen and conwomen! They don’t even know God! Avis, you have been conned and game over!
The alleged CONLady is said to be AILING:
WZhttps://youtu.be/REItWHHqSL8
And as you can see Avis had every donation documented, but wambui is still saying 20 million is 7 million shillings!
She sounds deliberately confused like WSR the DP of Kenya fuzzying the math of 21 billion shillings he stole from Kimwerer/arrow dams money with puniery 7 billion shillings he spends on one lunch!
!Maybe Ruto and wambui should get married since they are both cons! They both know how to cook the books.
Motherfucker using N-word thinking you got the best brains. Sounds amazing she was conned to dispel your Supremacist thinking that we need your fucking help!!!
You marry them they will swindle you..If nothing to swindle will abuse you. VERY EVIL AND UGLY PEOPLE
You are the evildoers and ugly ones. Most Africans are good people. It hurts when I see you use the N..... word. I just hope you are not a white bigot. We pray for you.
Are you proud of your preaching brothers and sisters stealing from hard working people!?
Those are the idiots you need to pray for to stop conning people! I don’t think the word “negro” is all that bad when applied to black thieves like this preacher woman who is stealing from an innocent lady from America!
Most Africans “used” to be very good people! But most of those good people have now changed to be thieves! Greed for money have made them very bad people! Do not be naive in your prayers - call a spade a spade!!
Josh, you are right.
Now the white lady has just become a white bigot after black wambui took 20M shillings from her? Don’t even dare infuse color here!
The black negro wambui is a thief! She is worse than a nigger! She won’t not have taken the white lady’s money if she is proud of her race!
Come in @sokora! I think you are the big bigger here! Shame on you! Give us a damn break you nigger!
Kamau et al, you are the idiots. How do you allow someone to insult your race. Thieves are everywhere including where you live. You do not label them bigotry names. You are all not saints; or are you?
I have no love for a thief! All thieves must be dealt with and eliminated!
I don’t belong to a race of thieves! As a matter of fact my race is any body who abides by the law and doesn’t steal!
Why are you getting insulted? Because your level is that of a bigger if you are a thief! This thieving bigger lady stole! She is not a member of my race because she is a thief! Just having names similar to those in my community doesn’t mean that I should condone their criminality! Catch the drift @sokora?
You miss the point. Nobody is supporting thieves. We linch them when caught by public before police get to them. And this wambui deserves the same. My issue is when @Rotten refers to Africans as niggers. See his/her first comment. I'm African; I'm not a nigger; I'm insulted. But if you are okay with the insult, I leave it to you.
@Rotten, it takes one ugly person to know another ugly person. You must have been hurt at some point...go lick your wounds and associate with your type of people not those of us who are proudly African and black.. Kwenda uko na machungu zako! now you think it's ok to use the N word 😒 to disparage the whole race and ethnicity. You are a horrible person for that.
We know there good and bad people everywhere. This pastor did wrong and Avis was trying to do good for those children, darn shame!. But what is done in the dark certainly comes to light.
Sober input that is? Great.
As a country, we would be doing much better if foreign religions never infiltrated our daily lives. Then, one is more likely to watch what people do and not what they say.
Iam not sure about that @ Thuraku. Granted unscrupulous men and women of the cloth have given chistianity abad name,I think total sum of what they have contributed to education,healthcare,and hunger reduction is undeniable.And that,I believe is the greater good the church does, I guess apart from giving believers hope of eternal in paradise...Of course they do,or did these benevolent acts to win followers into their religion.However,if we compare corruption in christian churches,to that in african churches,I would agree with you that the african ones are less corrupt,since we dont read or hear corruption from that end.Of course Iam assuming that they exist,and ...Come to thing of it, do african religions still exist today,in Kenya? And what is sustaining them in this day and age?Just curious.
Here we go again! Avis just provided support for the orphans! Where did all your mambo Jambi stuff come in here @thuraku!
Fiction and history obfuscate reality. Just live your life...
I agree! Religion is just a fallacy devised to give our life meaning. There is NO GOD! Sorry! This is just an imaginary figure where all these so called pastors hide in to fleece the gullible masses all over. Religion is just that a BUINESS, enjoying tax free exemptions!!!
Esther Wambui, left all those urchins dotting Nairobi and Centro, to go and run an orphanage in Migori? Child, please
I hear those Nairobi street urchins are nothing compared to the poverty in migori....ati poverty there bellows a fire...
I guess a stranger (no matter how bad) had to go take care of your own @ceneca in Migori since you have already failed in taking care of your deadly urchins!
Is this something new? Central have always aided your Migori with everything from food, water, Onena, tilapia, Latrine pits, to include central men to take care of your women cos your men can’t perform well!
So if you could do your part, others shouldn’t have to step in to do your job. We even will make Raila a president to stop you from throwing stones.
High cases of AIDS deaths in Migori caused the high increase of the urchins as you would want to call them @ceneca! You should know this since you are married to your sister’s ex husband!
If y’all can stop marrying your dead brother’s wives/sister/brother to your cousins, maybe you won’t have attracted a Wambui from central to come save your urchins in luo nyanza. Again laziness played a major part here because the wambuis are very hard working!
I believe the old American sponsor in her math!
Since when did the black Kenyan thief know how to properly keep books? She kept kienyeji books of counting stones.
How then would she know how much money was sent to her!? She is so stupid to know Avis has wire transfer record showing how much money she sent her!
Folks do not be conned by Kenyan thieves! Kenyans really do not tell the truth about what they are doing; and especially when money comes to play! They will have you killed for your money!
No one speaks the truth from ordinary folks, preachers, politicians and what have you!
The old lady Avis got conned and it is over! Stop trusting the black cons in African. They are all hungry fir money!
No justice for Avis! Those pretending to help her recover the money will even con her more! Just let it be madam Avis. Take it that you have been conned and hopefully learned a heavy pricy lesson!
Don’t even sue this thief because judges and lawyers will collude to steal Mzungu money! I’m telling you what I know! I have been conned there too! I have been conned there many times! I just had to disengage, lick my wounds and try to move on!
Please do not waste your time because the stealing cartel are huge there Avis! You just don’t send money to anyone in Africa because they are all rogue thieves!
The argument of Robert is from a bitter person! Why insult the whole of Africa? What do you so called angels come to Africa? Stay in your f....ng country! I have never vome across your filthy money and am doing well.we also work hard! Silver and gold belong to God and not to the disgusting coloured pink species. Nkt!
@nduta - y’all lie like dogs and nothing adds up when you are telling lies! Avis came with factual documents to show how much she gave! Wambui has just been eating with keeping proper accountability of the money she was stealing! My bitterness is solely based on seeing a Kenyan woman stealing another old lady’s money! You ain’t doing all that well because you went to eat some of the money with wambui! Which is my country you dummy @nduta!? You are supporting a thief because you are a thief! You dont work hard nduts except the moment you are spreading your legs to make prostitution money! You sound hungry: aren’t you?
@nduta - y’all lie like dogs and nothing adds up when you are telling lies! Avis came with factual documents to show how much she gave! Wambui has just been eating with keeping proper accountability of the money she was stealing! My bitterness is solely based on seeing a Kenyan woman stealing another old lady’s money! You ain’t doing all that well because you went to eat some of the money with wambui! Which is my country you dummy @nduta!? You are supporting a thief because you are a thief! You dont work hard nduts except the moment you are spreading your legs to make prostitution money! You sound hungry: aren’t you??
Robert you are right but shame on you for branding every African a rogue
Isn't there another case where an American priest/doctor started a hospital in Kenya and the nuns are saying it belongs to them. That is a very rotten society and some of us are ashamed to be associated with it.
Avis! Wambui is a kikuyu! They are known to love money! There is a saying if you drop a dime and it makes some noise, a dead kikuyu will revive from the dead at the sound of money! Just want to give a little smile Avis!🤣😂🤣😅😇
These folks can be like a viper when money is available! Well Avis, you just have to study Africans and their way of life to understand greed is real! These days you don’t send money to individuals in Kenya! They will lie to you and con you!
This is what has happened to you with Wambui! She will be in church on Sunday saying praise the Lord (Bwana asifiwe) well knowing she has stolen your money! She can even have you killed now over your money!
You may never get your money back! Just being honest to you sweet lady Avis!
@ JOSH right only Kikuyu's love money no other creature including you son of a bitch . if it was not for Kikuyus kenya woould still be a colony . Kikuyus died so that you can be free . That is why you don't love money . stop stereotyping Kikuyus kikuyus are the most hardworking people in Kenya and they are the ones who have build kenya to what it is today to great extent . stop tribalism and talk about individuals and not put kikuyus in one basket you chicken shit
The alleged CONLady is Allegedly AILING:
https://youtu.be/REItWHHqSL8
The organization most likely chose the location ostensibly due to the high cases of children orphaned as a result of AIDS. Is African religion the same as witchcraft? If so I would stay clear. What with all the cult killings of late in places like Ruiru and Kakmega. Some preachers preach water but drink wine.
I just want to stay here as a mzungu I sponsor an African lady called Eunice Seje in Nyalenda Kisumu to help children to send them to school to feed them to look after them also their families that are in need and this one is brilliant she would never cheat me she hasn't for all the years I've been sponsoring her she's totally honest and transparent,together we do some good work for needy children not everybody in Africa is a thief that's a beautiful heart helping people desperate times, I know you know there are some many Kenyan people with big hearts that are honest, "God bless the pure of heart", Mzungu and proud to help the desperate and poor of Kenya, Rod (Owuor)
@ Rod Hardman, I commend your unselfish charity efforts to alleviate lives of these children in destitute. Certainly you are making adifference in their lives.You could have gone to India,Congo.Or any other place worse than Kenya.
I am also grateful for you,and the children you serve that you found a trusted friend in Seje Nyalenda And I will not be naive to assume that there are no good wazungus or corrupt africans.You are the good mzungu.Keep up the good work.A starving child cares not of what the color the saving hand is.So long as his needs are met.
God bless you and keep you.big up yourself
Rod Hardnan, may God bless you and all that is yours.
I am in the Coast region of Kenya trying to establish a children's home. The poverty here is heartbreaking. I need partners who can help me actualize this vision. Would you know people who can help?
@ Rod Hardman:
Kwa kuwazoesha watu kupokeapoikea misaada bandia mnayotoa, mnafanya watu kufa akili yao na kuacha kutumia zawadi yao ya maisha inayoitwa akili.
Kusema kweli, matatizo tuliyo nayo sasa, asili yake inatokana na ninyi watu wa asili ya Europe. Ni nyinyi mliotuletea matatizo tuliyo nayo sasa. Kwa anini mnakuja kwetu huku mkijidai ya kwamba mnakuja kutusaidia na kusema kweli, ninyi wenyewe mna matatizo mengi kuliko yetu?
Ninyi watu wa asili ya Europe ham'mtambui MWUMBAJI MKUU ndio sababu mna ubaguzi wa rangi kwa binadamu ambaye hafanani nanyi! Isitoshe, mnawabagua watu ambao ni wanene: kwa nini?
Yaafaa mkae huko kwenu kuliko kuja kwetu na kujidai mnatusaidia na huku mnatuongezea matitizo kutokana na mifumo yenu ya ajabu ambayo imejaa ubaguzi na kutomheshimu au kumtambua MWUMBAJI MKUU kwa maumbile tofauti ya binadamu. Hata kuku wamewapita akili kwa sababu kuku hambagui kuku mwenzake kwa kuwa na manyoya ya rangi tofauti na yake. Kaeni na ubaguzi wenu wa rangi huko kwenu.
I think the answers are, in no particular order and not comprehensive; hypocrisy, a misplaced superiority complex, blindness caused by those logs in their eyes and insufferable self righteousness. I'm still trying to figure out of these are caused by religiosity or a cultural failing that gets passed on through religion.
The alleged lady thief is spoiling for others who help. Helpers are ppl who have chosen to sponsor out of a good heart. Potential helpers will think twice in the future
Oh yes she is a fake pastor that way they make us believe their testimony of being born again and we trust them. what a shame to steal in God's name. shame on her and may she rot and burn in hell for ever
Everywhere you go you try to help kenyans they try to fleece you..but they always stay at the same level in life because of that behavior..now look she is ailing all that money will go to medical...wonders of life..kula ya haki
Why would anyone trust NEGROES of that land? They are worst like Satan to do any business with.