Bethel China

The Lighthouse – Expecting Babies!

For the past year and a half, the ‘Lighthouse Project’ has been home to our 6 children and young people aged 10+ who have multi-disabilities. They have all flourished living in their home with an amazing team. They live on an amazing site in a converted French monastery in North Beijing.

Now we have been able to renovate more of the site, and we are going to open up some more of it as an Early Intervention Centre for babies. Five little ones have just moved in, and we are so excited to see them grow up!

The babies are all aged between 1-2 years old, and they include Yang Yang (Richard), Chen Fei (Faith), Yan Feng (Freddie), Qiu Ye (Luke) and Peng Peng (Priscilla).

Yang Yang and Qiu Ye even have little videos about them!

Early intervention is vitally important in the lives of children. Learning to walk, talk, play and love requires a lot of attention and love from Bethel China's caregivers and teachers. As well as this, there is a medical aspect to early intervention. Children born with some eye conditions can be treated to prevent vision loss, but in the majority of cases it should be treated before the age of 3 years.

Apart from these reasons, we also think that babies are so cute and we want to cuddle them from as early an age as possible!

Once these babies are settled, we hope to open up the home to welcome more children. More importantly, we want the Lighthouse Baby Home to be an example of good quality early intervention for blind children in China.

To sponsor one of these babies, or any of the other children in Bethel China's care, please visit www.bethelchina.org/sponsor-a-child. Payments can be set up monthly through Global Giving.

Thank you for your support!