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Bethel Business and Community Development Centre

P.O. Box 53, Mt. Moorosi 750, Lesotho

Email: bbcdc@ilesotho.com

Discipline     Teamwork     Leadership     Freedom

·        Skills and knowledge for economic growth and environmental rehabilitation.

·        Enterprise, products and innovation for quality livelihoods.

·         Community service through infrastructure development and extension programs.

Our Mission

To teach young men and women general engineering skills, manual capabilities, applied sciences and leadership abilities that address the needs of rural and urban development in Lesotho, and to pursue financial self-sustainability through self-reliance, commercial endeavor, and responsible environmental management. 

Organizational Profile

Strategies: By implementing leading edge paradigms from the fields of Authentic Learning, Permaculture, Biological Engineering, Ecology, Environmental Management Systems, and Renewable Energy, BBCDC is aiming for sustainable economic growth combined with environmental regeneration.

Primary Fields of Operation: Education, Self-reliance, Research and Development, Extension, and Commercialization.

Objective: To achieve a real economic growth rate of 10% per annum and to confer that capability on our students, the community we serve, and our institutional interactions.  Indications of this growth will be demonstrated by cash flow, asset growth, innovation, environmental restoration, demand for goods and services, and qualitative accomplishments.  The immediate objective is poverty alleviation and the ultimate goal is widespread middle class prosperity and freedom.

History of Organization: BBCDC was created in 1993.   It is registered with the Ministry of Education in Lesotho (#436.003), and is part of the Catholic School Secretariat in Lesotho.  The Centre aims to impart relevant rural skills to full and short-term students, and carry out research and development into energy efficient and appropriate technology, and to aid in the general development of the locality.  The vision of the Centre is financial self-sustainability through program, product and service excellence, and through optimization of local self-reliance.

Management Structure and Activities: 

The school is managed by an school committee consisting of two appointees of the local Roman Catholic Bishop, a teachers' representative, the Principal, and 3 members elected by parents of students registered at the school.  Its operation is in accordance with the Education Act of Lesotho. 

At present the staff consists of 6 teachers and 3 support workers, for 60 full time students.

Contact Information

Managing Director and Principal: Ivan Yaholnitsky

        Tel: 266-5874-2991

Postal address

PO Box 53, Mt. Moorosi 750, Lesotho

Electronic mail

bbcdc@ilesotho.com

 

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