I survived losing my leg… now I’m racing to finish my life’s work for America’s orphaned children

Dear Friend,

My name is K.J. Vigue, II.

I am 71 years old.

I have lost my home.

I have lost my livelihood.

About mid-June 2025, I lost my left leg to diabetes.

I came within hours of losing my life.

On June 11, 2025, I was flown by helicopter to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Unit in Baltimore.

I spent 10 days unconscious.

The priest who gave me Holy Communion is the same priest who had given me last rites before surgery. But I woke up.

By the grace of God and modern medicine, I survived.

I came out of that ordeal needing constant care, complete rehabilitation, and a prosthetic leg, which I have been told will be available to me by the end of September, 2025.

Through all of this, my purpose has not changed:

I have been building Scholars’ Pointe Academy for over twenty years, a place where orphaned and disadvantaged children in America find not just a home, but also family, education, and a real future.

Today, I am rebuilding my body from the ground up. My right leg is weak. My upper body needs strength. I even asked the director of physical therapy to give me a weight bar so I can train daily, simply to reclaim the dignity of movement.

The Urgent Need

With 1.35 million abandoned children and 600,000 in foster care in the U.S., our mission is to break the cycle of neglect.

But right now, I can’t finish this work if I can’t first survive and heal.

I am seeking $250,000 through GoFundMe to cover:

Two years of basic living expenses for my wife (who is now in very low-quality assisted care, suffering from dementia) and me.

Physiotherapy and rehabilitation.

The cost of a prosthetic leg and training to walk again.

Medical and caregiving support, food, utilities, and transportation.

When you give, you’re not just helping me heal, you’re giving a chance at life for an orphaned child to walk into a classroom where they’re loved, educated, and believed in.

Help me stand again, so thousands of children can stand tall for life.

Why This Matters

Two years of stability will give me time to:

Regain mobility and independence. Take my wife away from the horrors of being “warehoused” without real care in the assisted living facility.

Receive at-home physical therapy care.

Continue my work full-time from my desk.

Secure the permanent funding that will keep the Academy alive long after I am gone.

This is not charity just for me.

Every week counts , my rehab window is short and my work for the children can’t wait

Give what you can, no amount is too small.

Share this story, the more people who hear it, the more lives we can change.

Stand with me, so that together we can turn this vision into reality.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart,

K.J. Vigue, II

Founder, Scholars’ Pointe Academy & University

Funds will be used to help me get a leg prosthesis so I can stand up again. To rent a place I can call home, equipped for a handicapped person. To help my wife come home from the low quality assisted living so she can also live with me in dignity, and so we be able to hire a stay-in support person for both of us in our daily lives.