About Us

While on a mission trip to Kenya in June of 2009 several of the current Huruma House directors took a side trip to the district of Busia in western Kenya to visit Christopher Otsieno, a long-time Kenyan friend of Stephen Greek. We had the opportunity to meet the many widows and orphans he had been so faithfully caring for in his community, and before we even left Kenya we felt the Spirit of God urging us to support him in his work.

We quickly learned that a Kenyan missionary, Keith Gafner, had already been working with Christopher, providing him funds and agricultural assistance to support the widows and orphans under his care. But it was obvious that Christopher needed more help than he was receiving, so several individuals begin sending funds to Keith Gafner through his sponsoring church congregation so that Keith could better aid Christopher in his work.

Before long, the funds flowing into the project became an unmanageable administrative burden for Keith, distracting him from his other valuable ministry work. So, the four families who had been supporting the work decided to create a new non-profit corporation called Huruma House to manage the donations to the project. Keith Gafner continues to advise the work, but the funds no longer flow through his hands.

Although this work began in Bwaliro, Kenya, Huruma House has its sights set on the long-term goal of creating a model of orphan care in East Africa that is sustainable and reproducible without creating a dependence on foreign donors. We hope to purchase enough income-generating assets in Bwaliro to bring the work to a point where it is as self-sustaining as possible, and then we plan to gradually shift Huruma House's financial resources to other places in East Africa where the local people are already stepping out in sacrificial faith to care for widows and orphans. Our hope is, as funds become available, to continually reproduce the Bwaliro success story in dozens of other locations across the continent.

Huruma House is a Texas non-profit corporation established on October 19, 2009. We received our 501(c)(3) status in March 2010, and Huruma House is now recognized by the IRS as a tax-exempt public charity. Donations to Huruma House are tax-deductible.

The Huruma House directors are committed to making sure that 100% of funds raised from the general public go directly to supporting widows, orphans, and the needy in East Africa. Any necessary fund-raising, overhead, or administrative costs are borne by the directors themselves so as to maximum the Kingdom benefit of each dollar raised from the public