{"id":24,"date":"2023-10-20T18:32:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T18:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handsoflovefororphans.org\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2024-04-25T09:34:47","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T09:34:47","slug":"meet-the-director","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/handsoflovefororphans.org\/?page_id=24","title":{"rendered":"MEET THE DIRECTOR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The director and founder of <strong>HLOCM<\/strong> KAGODA GODFREY is a very humble, kind and God-fearing man. Godfrey knows the daily struggle of hopelessness and despair because of his humble background being born in a very poor family and rescued in his youthful age by a local Church which offered him basic education, safe lodging and a sound spiritual foundation. All these experiences of God\u2019s unconditional love called Godfrey to a Christian life and a long-life mission to care for orphans, vulnerable children and those desperately in need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a youth and a servant of God in the local church, Godfrey could no longer ignore the helpless and desperate children he encountered on a daily basis. But through prayer and conviction, he had a life changing experience and was inspired by God to start HLCOM because more and more children came to him on daily basis requesting for help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Godfrey now acts as a father to the children under <strong>HLOCM <\/strong>and his  loving, God-fearing and hardworking character  have made HLOCM what it is now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cHereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren\u201d I JOHN 3:16<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"223\" src=\"https:\/\/handsoflovefororphans.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/DSC_2841_043656-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/handsoflovefororphans.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/DSC_2841_043656-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/handsoflovefororphans.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/DSC_2841_043656-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/handsoflovefororphans.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/DSC_2841_043656-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/handsoflovefororphans.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/DSC_2841_043656-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/handsoflovefororphans.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/DSC_2841_043656.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The director and founder of HLOCM KAGODA GODFREY is a very humble, kind and God-fearing man. Godfrey knows the daily struggle of hopelessness and despair because of his humble background being born in a very poor family and rescued in his youthful age by a local Church which offered him basic education, safe lodging and a sound spiritual foundation. All these experiences of God\u2019s unconditional love called Godfrey to a Christian life and a long-life mission to care for orphans, vulnerable children and those desperately in need. As a youth and a servant of God in the local church, Godfrey&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsoflovefororphans.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsoflovefororphans.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsoflovefororphans.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsoflovefororphans.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsoflovefororphans.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/handsoflovefororphans.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399,"href":"https:\/\/handsoflovefororphans.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions\/399"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsoflovefororphans.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsoflovefororphans.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}