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NOTICE - As of July 2015:
The Lions Beacon House has always been solely focused on the young men and women who are aging out of the orphanage. Although we will return to our original purpose in due time we would like to bring attention to a phone call we received in late June. This was an urgent call for help to find food for all of the children at the orphanage. The urgency and importance of this matter has changed our focus for the time being. Please see the "Trip Details and Mission Needs" page under The Info tab for more information.
NOTICE - As of July 2015:
The Lions Beacon House has always been solely focused on the young men and women who are aging out of the orphanage. Although we will return to our original purpose in due time we would like to bring attention to a phone call we received in late June. This was an urgent call for help to find food for all of the children at the orphanage. The urgency and importance of this matter has changed our focus for the time being. Please see the "Trip Details and Mission Needs" page under The Info tab for more information.
Original purpose; A Future vision
This will be a place of entrepreneurial ignition for young men and ladies who have aged out of the orphanages without a scholarship to further their education. They have not been taught a trade in order to provide for themselves and their families once they are on their own! Career boosting the first few years of being truly on their own is extremely important. If there is no entrepreneurial minds amongst the young Zimbabwean teens it will mean another generation of human trafficking, alcohol, prostitution, gang, terrorist, and drug infested streets for most of them. Not only another repeat generation but the enabling of Mugabe to continue his dictatorship over a people who do not know what to do to make change. Over 10% of orphans who are forced to leave commit suicide during there first year out.
This will be a place where everything from fun international cooking lessons, to academic tutoring, to natural healing education will be taking place. To learn more about natural healing you can visit: www.youngliving.com/en_US Class list: Climate Change and Environmentalist Solutions Food Preservation, Re-Use/Recycling, and Solar Power Writing for Change Speech and Presentation Translating Music and Recording Lessons Art Vocal Arrangement Productions Business Management Networking The Audio Book Project International Cooking/Baking & last but perhaps the opposite of least because of the LBH Clinic!, Natural Medicine We will be teaching trades to boost entrepreneurship type living for the majority of these kids whom are not able to get a hold of a scholarship or a personal academic sponsor. The "College eligible" kids will be boosted in scholarships and even be put into exchange student programs. Often times there will be 3 or 4 amongst an entire orphanage or transitional house whom show real potential for prospects in the schools of medicine or law. These are thought of by many as the rising stars. However, I beg to differ on behalf of many inventive minds and innovative artists who have a value on an entirely different thought . . . teaching a man how to fish. Some of the kids simply have not mastered their English well enough to jump right into a scholarship. It is common that the kids are not well informed(no idea) of what opportunities are available. But they are very aware of their poverty stricken state. This pushes them to stay ready and willing to learn anything that could help them. Some need to be taught the use of computers while others first and foremost need to learn simplistic living ideas like recycling and making things stay clean longer or last farther. |