The Beautiful Gate Care Centre

The Beautiful Gate Care Centre, located in Maseru, Lesotho, first opened its doors in 2001, to care for abandoned and HIV/AIDS affected children. It reaches out to orphaned, abandoned, and neglected children, ages newborn to 5 years old, to give them the care, comfort and love they need and deserve.

In a country afflicted by overwhelming poverty and extreme disease, children are often treated with no more respect or worth than a discarded candy wrapper. Children have been found in a trash dumpster, a toilet pit, alone on the streets, and in a forest. BGL seeks to give them the opportunity to be more than just a statistic and simply be kids. It does not matter whether they are orphaned or abandoned, they are still children, and their first and foremost identity is as a precious child made in the image of a loving Heavenly Father.

The ultimate goal is to unite these children with forever families that will love them as their own. Until that is accomplished, Beautiful Gate Lesotho is their family, and the staff and volunteers love these children as their own. They are given opportunities to go to school, play with friends and help around the houses, just like any other child.  They have the same physical and emotional needs that all children do.

In the past, Andrew Pimm, (Jane McBride’s husband), visited the centre every autumn, along with Jenny Dobson, who is our contact person residing in the U.K. Together they travelled to Lesotho to spend time with the children, caring for them and bringing much needed medical supplies and cash donations to buy essential items purchased locally. Sadly, Andrew passed away two years ago. However, Jenny continues to work with this project and will return to Lesotho this fall with Andrew’s daughter Lucy. Your donations will enable them to purchase medicine to treat fever, coughs, and ringworm as well as disinfectant and bandages for infections, and also much needed food items on site. Beautiful Gate meant a lot to Andrew, so it seems only fitting that we continue to support this project in his memory.

Please consider making a financial donation. Thank you so much for your generosity!

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