The SOURCE OF LIFE center began because of a chain of events that showed a number of individuals how God wants to show His love to the people of Guinea.
THE EVENTS THAT BEGAN THE PROCESS:
JUNE 2007: The NGO (non-government organization) AFEG (Actualite Feminine en Guinee – Women’s news in Guinea) began operating a community radio station in December 2006 in the heart of Conakry, the capital of Guinea. One evening a desperate woman came to the radio station with a two week old infant and said if someone didn’t take the child immediately she would throw it away. One of the single journalists who was working late that night said she would take it and adopt it as her own. She took the child, and in the following month went through the police paperwork and adopted “Esther”. As the head of AFEG – this situation made me aware of the reality that in this poor country, many women were not able to care for their children.
OCTOBER 2007 - One day I was discussing a mutual interest - the dilemma of abandoned infants - with an expat lady who has lived in Guinea for many years. She had just begun to work with a National woman in the opening of an orphanage that would be located in the interior of the country. Families began calling her asking if there was a place in the orphanage for newborns. They were not yet advanced enough in the process of setting up the orphanage to handle this request. The radio station was located in a 4 story office building on the 3rd floor but we had rented 2 apartments on the 1st floor that we were not yet using … so we decided to use one of the apartments as the initial receiving and living area for children under 3 years old. Eventually the orphanage grew and they began a location in Conakry that could look after newborns. BUT the leaders of AFEG saw the need was greater than one center could handle.
OCTOBER 2008 – AFEG launched it’s vision to start a center that would not be an orphanage but a center where abandoned infants would be received. The vision was to receive the most vulnerable – abandoned babies under 8 months of age with the goal of finding families to adopt them.
