By MN Reporter
A United States donor and a local from Isebania have thrown accusation over Sh20million donated at Noah’s Boat Goodheart Children’s Home in Isebania town.
The donor Avis Goodheart, who the orphanage has been named after has called on government to help recover the amount she claimed to have sent to Esther Wambui.
The two have been partners since 2018, but Goodheart told Citizen TV that Wambui has been giving false information on the number of orphans she was supporting, having quoted 148 orphans against the reality of supporting 18 orphans.T
But in a quick rejoinder, Wambui claimed Goodheart has donated only Sh7 million shillings to the organization, has assaulted her and wants the organization handed to another group.
Both partners have reported the matter to police, and their standoff will be headed to court.
“I rented a brand new house and paid for them to move into it for a full year and I sent her 1000 dollars every month for that year and in 2018 I came back and Esther and the kids said it is good to buy a land,” Avis Goodheart, a philanthropist said after meeting Wambui in 2017.
They acquired a 2-acre piece of land in Bingutwi, Isibania Migori County in 2018 where she helped raise funds to build an orphanage.
“Over the last 22 months I sent her lots of money, one of my sponsors gave her 18,000 dollars to buy her a car, that same week we sent 5,500 dollars to buy a piece of property,” she added.
She claims she has sent Wambui over 200,000 dollars over the last four years, which she thought, was supporting 148 orphans.
She wants all property they bought together repossesed and they start a new ministry without Wambui.
Wambui has said all she has done is above board.
“Mara ya kwanza alikuwa anatuma 100,000 kila mwezi nagawa 60,000 kwa chakula na 40,000 kwa wanafunzi waende shule na hiyo pesa ndio ameishi kutuma … Pesa kidogo sana amekuwa akituma ni 40,000,” the founder Noah’s Boat Goodheart Children’s Home, Esther Wambui told Citizen TV.
Wambui claims that there is a group out to take over the home which she founded in 2007 and has sacrificed everything to see children get educated and have a good life.
