Bright Hope Future Children Home

Todd Iliff

Todd grew up in a small town in Northwestern Montana called Libby. At age 19 he joined the US Air Force as a heavy equipment operator. He was stationed in Las Vegas, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, South Korea, Iraq, and South Carolina. After serving 6 years in the military he decided to get out and go work in Iraq as a civilian contractor. Todd grew up in a Christian home, but after high school fell away from the Lord. While in Iraq as a civilian contractor, the Lord revealed himself to him and he became a Christian. Right away he realized he was being called to work in Kenya. So he quit his job and booked a ticket to Nairobi, Kenya not knowing what he was going to do or what to expect but just following the Lord. He wandered around Kenya for a few weeks looking for someone who needed some help and finally found a Pastor in Eldoret who ran a School. He stayed in Eldoret for 3 months building a dining hall, kitchen, and a school building for Gethsemane Christian Academy. After his commitment was finished in Eldoret he moved to Kitale to help start a Non Government Organization with a friend he met in Kenya. In Kitale he got involved with Bright Hope Future Children Home. He bought 1 acre of land and started building a new home for the orphans. The home can house about 40 orphans. It is a brick structure with three large rooms and 2 small ones. The 2 large rooms are for the girls and the other for the boys, the open space in the centre is for a common area. The 2 small rooms are for the house-mother and for the office. There are 21 orphans already in Bright Hope Future Children Home. They are currently renting a small mud hut a few hundred meters away from the new site. As soon as this as this home is completed they will be moved into it. The main structure on the home is complete, meaning the walls, roof and floor. All that is needed to finish this orphanage is the plastering of the walls and floors and to put the windows and doors and a kitchen structure. Todd has been here working since May, 2006.

Alan and I met Todd when we moved in to the Rhino Gate House. Todd is at present living here as he is a good friend of Budd and Kim, the owners of this house. He is looking after their affairs and taking care of the house whilst they are back in the States expecting the birth of their first child, which is due any day now.
Todd has spent all his savings and money he earned whilst in the army and in Iraq into the building of this home. We are very impressed with what he has done. Not only has he single-handedly started building this home and came so far, but he is trusting and believing that God will help him complete it. We now are doing our little bit in the hope that his story will move some of you out there to asist with the fiannances for his project. Once the home is completed there will be on-going finance to take care of the running of the home and expenses for the children.
We visited these children and they are bright and happy people, each of them have a sad story behind their history. We were told of 3 orphans, the youngest is Emmanuel who is 7 and he has 2 older sisters a few years older. Their parents passed away and they were alone since February without anyone to take care of them. A social worker found them and brought them to Bright Hope Future Children Home and they are now being cared for.

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