South Africa: A Place for Every Child

Offering Hope to the Hopeless

Imagine a team from your church taking piles of sand and gravel and building a safe, loving home for a child who is desperate for a forever family. Imagine watching homes rise up on what was once a farm so that up to 200 children who were abandoned have a place to call home. Imagine watching children laugh and play who began like abandoned and with no hope. Not only does the Door of Hope save infants from abandonment, but they give children a place to grow up rooted in faith, hope, and the love of God. Helping children know that they are loved is the backdrop for serving at Door of Hope.

Building homes is just one part of serving at Door of Hope. Door of Hope rescues abandoned infants and cares for them in “Baby Houses” until they are toddlers. There are normally more than 60 infants being cared for at the Door of Hope Baby Houses. Some are adopted by families or reunited with their birth families but one out of every three babies cared for at Door of Hope is not chosen for adoption will need to make their home at Door of Hope Village. The alternative for most would be spending their entire childhood in a state-run orphanage only to be sent out at eighteen years of age with no one to help them make their way in life. Door of Hope Village will offer those not chosen for adoption a place to grow to adulthood. That will mean building a school, a child development center, and dozens of homes in the years to come.

You can also serve as an intern at the Door of Hope at one of the Baby Houses caring for children. Interns can serve for as little as six weeks or for several months. You can assist the aunties who are caring for the babies and be a lifeline to a child who is beginning a new life filled with God’s love.

You can offer hope to the hopeless through Baptists on Missions’ partnership with Door of Hope Children’s Mission.

Learn more or register your team here!