Meet the Founder
Bridget Gilbert
Bridget Gilbert is the Founder and creative visionary for Khanya Foundation Inc. NFP. Born and raised in Johannesburg South Africa, filled with goals and passion hoping to affect the world positively.
She was the first in her family to leave her country to come to America and help young people engage in indoor/outdoor activities.
She finds serving in this capacity a great privilege as she reflects on how it helped her navigate and overcome challenges as she now travels the world taking the fear out of failure.
Bridget is a patient and self-motivated person with a passion for helping others, especially children. She has been an advocate of volunteering and doing community work her entire life, offering her time to many causes over the years, including the Health Initiative, feeding the homeless, and the Church Food Pantry at Christian Faith Fellowship Church.
She has done so through her volunteer work and her careers, where she prides herself on her quick and accurate service and her close attention to detail. In addition to being passionate about helping children, Bridget also loves planning events, decorating, coming up with new ideas, and traveling.
Her unwavering passion and commitment to excellence have helped her start another venture, a non-profit organization called Khanya Foundation Inc. NFP. Through Foundation, Bridget wants to be an advocate for children in South Africa. As a mother to a 10-year-old daughter, Bridget knows the importance of creating opportunities for young children.
She also understands how critical this is for South African children in rural areas, who don’t have access to electricity and fall victim to house fires and the death and destruction. Bridget and Khanya aim to distribute battery-operated lights and lamps to these children to minimize this risk.
She hopes that this addition will allow children to focus on homework and studying and will ultimately help them thrive. While this is a monumental task, Bridget has high hopes for her foundation and its future success. As it grows, she hopes to create more training and opportunities, implement a STEM program, Boys’, and Girls’ clubs, and invest in a building so that children can come in person for different facility events.
