Our Mission

The mission of the Lighthouse Children’s shelter is to provide an emergency place of safety for abandoned and HIV positive children as well as providing quality, family style long-term care for children whose family structures have been destroyed.

Road To Adoption
The Lighthouse Children’s Shelter works together with ABBA Adoptions, a Christian adoption agency in Pretoria. All orphaned or abandoned children are found new homes where once again they can grow up in a family with a mommy and daddy and experience a new life with wonderful opportunities. Many of our children have been adopted into new ‘forever families’ and have been placed in loving and nurturing homes.

Little Nolo came to us on October 14, 2001. His mother, Grace, was dying from kidney failure and was incapable of properly caring for him. Grace was unable to nurse Nolo for two months and this resulted in Nolo being severely malnourished. We immediately rushed him to the emergency room and began the long process of nursing him back to health. At the age of eleven months, Nolo only weighed a mere 4.5 kilograms. Nolo was at first fed with a syringe, later with a spoon and after two arduous months, he was on the road to a full recovery. Grace has since passed away and Nolo now has a new ‘forever family.’

Long-Term Care
We currently provide long-term care for children in a home on the current Lighthouse property.
This home is spacious and provides a safe haven for those children whose parents have paased away or children who are in foster care for a period of time.

The children are given quality care by a Joster care mom. These children are in school and learning on a daily basis.Our Long term plans will be to replace the existing shelter on the new property with a larger capacity for children.