One of the key sustainable community empowerment initiatives that we have identified is a self-sustainable vegetable garden. This initiative has the potential not only to create an empowerment model of self-sufficiency with regard to food security but could empower the community to run their own vegetable garden as an economic, monetary vehicle; so that they are financially sound and would ultimately create employment opportunities for the community members at large.

Support for learners is a key area that is lacking currently at the Rabasotho Combined School. In particular are inadequate facilities for Early Childhood Development in terms of basic requirements i.e. learning aids, mattresses for learners to rest on as well as mobile classroom essential. Due to the high school dropout rate and lack of support with career development and high potential learners accessing tertiary education; BLCF offers career and entrepreneurship development programme.

• Teach destitute communities the Word of God in order to encourage them and change their hopelessness
• Through the teaching of the Word, the moral fibre of our society gets regenerated in the process. (Theodore Roosevelt “to educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society”).
• Encourage them and change their state of hopelessness
• Through the teaching of the, consequently, the moral fabric of our society gets regenerated in the process

• Orphans and Vulnerable Children. We are currently assisting forty (40) orphans and vulnerable children with food items on twice a week to ensure that they receive the required nutrition to sustain themselves.
• HIV / AIDS & TUBERCULOSIS Support Initiative: Currently eighty (80) men and women on treatment have requested our assistance. Due to the lack of resources to support their nutritional requirements we cannot support the affected community members. (Figures were compiled and verified jointly with the Social Worker and the Community Leadership).