Projects
One Child
Each child at Beautiful Gate is a valuable part of our family. They each have an identity and personality that is only theirs. In order to properly care for each child's needs, we have an operating expense of 5 million Rand annually. When broken down it costs Beautiful Gate approximately R6,000 (~$366 USD) per month to care for one child. This cost covers the child's food and medical costs, the staffing costs to provide quality care for each child, and the utilities to provide a safe environment for the child to live and grow in. Will you commit to supporting a child for a month? For a year?
Through your giving,
you become a part of their living!
August Need of the Month: Bbay Formula
Each month we present one of our current outstanding needs or projects as a means of helping supporters focus their desire to give in specific ways. If you are interested in giving toward our “Need of the Month” click on the Donate button below. If you have any question, please contact our Public Relations & Fundraising Manager at bglprmanager@gmail.com or donations@beautifulgatelesotho.org.
Blessings and greetings to you our friends and supporters,
One of the major challenges in raising toddlers is that they don’t eat almost everything that can be consumed by human being, for them to grow well and healthy, they need their own diet, their own nutrition, Formula 1 and 2 seems to be one that really works on their favor.
This month we wish to raise funds to go towards formula expenses. We aim to raise R10 000 (~$649.25USD). Would you kindly consider partnering with us to help make sure we can continue providing the best source of early nutrition for our babies?
We cannot love and care for the children that God has placed at Beautiful Gate Lesotho without your ongoing help and support. Would you prayerfully consider giving to help us successfully reach our goal?
If you have any questions about donating, please contact: donations@beautifulgatelesotho.org
Peka Project: Beautiful Gate 2
It has been a long-time dream of Beautiful Gate Lesotho's board and management to expand our services to other districts of Lesotho. It is with great excitement and joy that we announce we are taking steps to make this dream a reality. At the end of 2017, Beautiful Gate Lesotho was given a plot of land in Peka, Leribe (roughly 1.5 hours from our Maseru campus). Through a generous financial gift, we were also able to purchase some surrounding land in order to have a big enough property to accommodate a new childcare centre. As we care for children between the ages of birth and five years old at our Maseru campus, our goal is for the Peka campus to cater to children six years old and above. We also hope to create a more focused care and development program for children with special needs.
To date, we have been able to complete the fencing and borehole. We also thank God that with financial donations by friends and supporters, we were able to start construction on the Guard House and Gateway in May which have now been completed. (Pictures provided below).
Our next steps are to approach Lesotho Electricity Company (LEC) for a quote on connecting us up with power and we'd also like to start the next phase of our construction which would be the Dining and Kitchen Hall and 1 each of a boys' house and a girls' house.
Pictures of Guard House and Gateway
Beautiful Shuttle
Beautiful Gate hopes to begin a shuttle service as a new income-generating project to help offset the fundraising for our annual operational costs. Outreach teams visiting and serving at Beautiful Gate would be given first priority for this service, followed by other Beautiful Gate related needs. The service would also be open to groups/individuals outside of Beautiful Gate (e.g. other missionary organizations, non-profits, etc.) based on availability. We have already begun the registration process to open such a service and are actively collecting funds to purchase a start-up 22-seater vehicle at an estimated cost of R450,000 (~$30,000 USD).
Current amount raised: R16,557
Preschool Classroom
The preschool on Beautiful Gate's campus is rented out to Sefate Sa Bophelo English Medium School. This school serves both the children of preschool age at Beautiful Gate as well the surrounding Ha Thetsane Community. The school is currently in need of adding an additional classroom to better serve the children. The estimated cost of this project is R150,000 (~$12,500 USD).
Completed Projects
Larger GENERATOR
The Avani Hotel has generously gifted us their lightly used generator free of charge! It is bigger and more powerful than our previous one and is able to power the whole of our campus. Thank you to our friends at Avani and to Ntate Moremi Sojane of Amalgamated Engineering Solutions for organizing the donation.
Maintenance vehicle
We are grateful to a number of international donors who, together through their generous financial support, made it possible for us to purchase a gently used work truck that our maintenance department will be able to utilize for many years to come.
Abba’s Playhouse
We are so grateful to our friends at Oceans Ministries as well as other anonymous partners who have helped to make Abba’s Playhouse, our new child development centre, a reality. It is a game-changer to have a space dedicated to the physical and educational development of our children.
MEDICAL FRIDGE
We thank one of our volunteer teams from Canada for graciously providing the funds to purchase a new medical fridge for our on-campus clinic after our previous one broke down. Our children's medications can once again be stored on campus, freeing up much of our nurse's time to provide care for the children and staff.
Bathroom Renovations
We extend our gratitude to friends in England, Australia, and the Netherlands for their financial contributions and physical labor, as they helped us complete renovations of all the bathrooms in our children’s houses.