 It was on safari that she met and fell in love with Richard Sisia, her safari driver, who would later become her husband.In 1998 Daniel Sisia, Richard's father and Gemma's father in law, gifted her a small plot of land in Arusha to build a school for the poor.Gemma started building The School of St Jude on this land with a mission to help the poorest children receive an education.