Gathiga Children’s Hope Home was started by Lucy Njoki Ndegwa in 1996 in Gathiga village in Kenya. She was extremely disturbed at seeing so many young children on the streets of Nairobi eating from garbage cans and sleeping on the pavements without even a warm blanket to warm or protect them from the elements. She begun visiting the children in the streets, talking and preaching to them. She showed them the love of God and the purpose of living. Some women joined her in backing the vision. She later invited the children to her home and after having a good time some decided to stay.... and that was the birth of Gathiga Children's Hope Home to-date. Six children were left on that day. As more and more children were dropped at her doorstep, she took this as a sign from God that forming a Children's Home was to be her work on Earth.