Our Founders, Toby and Aukje Brouwer, share about leaving Holland and their journey to start BGSA.

Meet Toby and Aukje Brouwer, founders of Beautiful Gate South Africa. Over 30 years ago, they left Holland and moved to South Africa. Their journey led them to establish Beautiful Gate South Africa, initially as a home for street children in Muizenberg. 🌟🌍🏠
Audio Transcript:
Hi everyone. We are Toby and Aukje Brouwer, founders of Beautiful Gate in South Africa.
In 1989, we watched a documentary on Dutch TV about street kids in Cape Town. When one of the cameras moved in on one of the kids sleeping behind a tombstone on a graveyard in Cape Town, we were moved by compassion. We felt like a voice was saying come over and help us.
At the end of the documentary, there was an appeal for donations. We wrote down the details and before we went to sleep that evening, we prayed a simple prayer. "Lord, will you give these kids a home, a place to belong?" We never thought in our wildest dreams that God would actually call us to make our prayers practical, but He did! And in 1991 we left Holland, together with our three kids, and we embarked on a journey to provide a home for vulnerable children in Muizenberg Cape Town. And we have never looked back.