Covenant Home for Children

Our ultimate goal is to build a Children's Home and campus in Region 3 of Georgetown, Guyana. However, our first phase focuses on the said three existing homes, in addition to supporting bereaved children, and the Tiger Bay Youth Soccer Club.

Thus, we're currently starting a dialogue with our local professional soccer/sports teams who may have players from South America, who are willing to support the Tiger Bay club.

Using 2018 and 2019 for planning, fundraising and predevelopment, by January, 2020, we hope to be fully permitted and entitled for construction, with a Certificate of Occupancy issuance ultimately depending on whether we build from the ground up, or renovate an existing property.

The first year of operation, we will most likely coordinate in and around the school calendar year. Years 1-3 will focus primarily on our program development and outreach efforts, while continuously developing new global impact relationships with a variety of public, private, individual, and corporate entities.

By years 4-5, we will be in a full-scale operation, and sustainable operationally and financially. Covenant Home will continue to refine the approach and process, while also expanding the focus more fully to include post-secondary and family economic success strategies. We hope, by year 5, to have helped several thousand children and their families, through God’s work.

We're rolling out a multimedia campaign highlighting our founders, board and passion for this cause. Once we've built a strong reputation in the community with the existing children's homes, we're confident that more substantial donors will feel comfortable in helping to finance our effort in building a new home. As we establish our approach to fundraising, capital is obviously required to remain operational at some level, thus our planned financial projections will begin from this baseline below, and project fundraising and expenditure requirements based on our plans for engaging competent counsel, executive and administrative expertise, office space, and travel requirements.

To date, Covenant Home has already engaged certain broad-based support as the beginning of our donor base. To achieve our goals over the next five years, we will need to commission the completion of a thorough cost analysis of our planned real estate lease/purchase, construction/renovation, programs and operations. Covenant Home will soon prepare our Preliminary Budget and establish what will be needed as predevelopment capital to allow us to properly plan/develop the project.

Of the required needed start-up capital, we cannot yet anticipate whether a majority will come from public or private-sector funders, however we will fully vet all financial projections to ensure of an accurate baseline and prospectus for donors and grantors to consider.

As detailed in our full prospectus, Covenant Home will always pursue a variety of opportunities for addressing our most immediate financial needs, and for building a sustainable organization over time, which include:

1. Make better use of existing resources;
2. Strengthen and expand partnerships;
3. Create more flexibility in existing use of resources; and
4. Generate new public- and private-sector funding.

Leading the Covenant Home are three core branches of leadership, who have led this effort from the beginning, ensuring that it is well managed, transparent, well-resourced and stays true to its inclusive, global approach to service in impact through prayer, planning, and action.

Aside from our Board of Directors, Officers, and Staff, we also see the surrounding community of Georgetown, our American partnerships, and potential international peers as foundational allies in our ongoing effort. With over several decades’ worth of theological education and experience, Covenant Home enjoys the support, wisdom and faith of our team of Pastors who are also natives just as Covenant Home’s founder and president, Pastor Walter Seetal.

Other Covenant Home partners include a variety of committed community-based organizations, including the Union Rescue Mission in Downtown, Los Angeles, and aims to establish an open dialogue with a variety of government officials and global poverty eradication institutions, as well as several regional and national organizations.

Although a groundbreaking initiative for this part of South America, Covenant Home’s duly elected Board of Directors and Executive Leadership intend to build on the legacy of philanthropy and goodwill of other global charities such as the American Humane Association, Children’s Defense Fund, and the (American) Red Cross.

As of 2018, we have an open registration with the local government in Guyana as an international nonprofit organization, an active “Committee of Management” there in Guyana who collaborate with us, and we’re in the process of beginning to launch our first online Fundraising Campaign, and planning our first Fundraiser Event to support our campaigns for;

A. Children's Home Support Fund
B. Tiger Bay Youth Soccer Club
C. Children of Bereavement

After we've developed a strong donor base for these causes, we'll begin focusing on financing the development of our own children's home.