A donor from the United States has appealed to the Kenyan Justice System to help her recover a children’s home and school that a Naivasha-based bishop acquired from her fraudulently.
Sherri Gonzales detailed that she started a nonprofit organisation in 2016 and travelled to Kenya a year later to start an education centre for needy and vulnerable children.
It was while in Kenya that she met a bishop ministering at Oasis Grace in Naivasha who promised to help her set up the school.
The Sherri’s Education Centre located at Karagita, Naivasha was started with the sole purpose of ensuring that vulnerable students are in school while undergoing puberty.
“I hired him as a director but later realised that he was sending me forged documents to show that I owned the school,” she explained noting that a later document search revealed that the Bishop had registered the property under his name.
With the centre admitting students, Sherri in a video to the press remarked that she continuously sent the bishop cash to run the institution.
It was in 2020, that Sherri realised that she had been conned and the children’s home was registered under the Bishop and ever since she has been trying to get her school back.
“I have hired two attorneys since and one switched sides and started working for him,” she regretted adding that she travelled from the United States to Naivasha Police Station to follow up on the matter but nothing was done.
Sherri wants justice to be served so that she can get back her school to allow her to continue helping needy children in the country.
“He was receiving money and other charitable donations from US donors through my organisation,” she explained how unsuspecting American citizens were duped by the bishop.
Her son, Genos Derwin Williams, a former National Football League (NFL) player was one of the largest donors helping raise millions for the project.
“I do not have any emotions for the Bishop, I am more angry that he has been allowed to get away with the act. All the money he has received from many people and kept to himself,” she stated.
“I was a blessing to help and he took it from the children, community and the future.”
