Give to Gate of Hope
The kind of hope that doesn't run out.
Your gift helps East African new neighbors in Louisville build a life here, and it keeps going long after the first ninety days run out.
ECFA accredited 501(c)(3) nonprofit Serving since 1995
Why your gift matters
When the clock runs out, we show up.
When a new neighbor arrives in Louisville through the federal refugee resettlement program, the support lasts ninety days. Housing help, a caseworker, a short orientation. Then it ends, and a family is on its own in a new country, a new language, a new set of systems nobody explained.
Gate of Hope is what comes after. We walk with East African new neighbors for as long as it takes, with trauma counseling, citizenship help, driver's education, language support, mentorship for girls, healing through farming, and care for women rebuilding after violence. Ninety days was never going to be enough. So we stay.
Make your gift
Give once, or give every month.
A monthly gift is what lets us tell a family we will still be here next year, and mean it. Pick what works for you. You can change or stop a monthly gift any time.
Your gift at work
Here is what a gift looks like up close.
Real costs from real programs. This is where your money actually goes.
Humura · to comfort
Covers one trauma-informed counseling session in our women's circle, where new neighbors work through what they carry, in their own language, with a counselor who understands.
The road to independence
Helps a new neighbor pass the written driver's test. In a city built around the car, a license changes what a whole family can reach.
U.S. citizenship help
Walks a family through the citizenship process start to finish. The paperwork, the preparation, and someone beside them the whole way.
Tabara · to rescue
Funds a month of mentorship, safety, and steady care for East African girls and young women finding their footing in Louisville.
Where your gift goes
Five initiatives, built with families, not for them.
Gate of Hope has been at this since 1995. Everything here is running right now, in Louisville, not waiting on a grant.
Gosheni
The healing place
A working farm in Southwest Louisville. Families grow food they know, sell what they do not need, and get their hands back in the soil.
Your gift: seed, water, tools, and a ride for a grower with no car.
Himbaza
To praise
Children and young people learning music and worship, and learning how to stand in front of a room and lead it.
Your gift: instruments, and adults who show up every single week.
Humura
To comfort
The women's circle. Health, motherhood, and the company of women who have stood in the same place and come through it.
Your gift: childcare, interpretation, and a ride across town so a mother can be in the room.
Tabara
To rescue
Mentorship, safety, and protection for teen girls and young women. A mentor, a circle, and people firmly in their corner.
Your gift: a month of mentorship and someone who shows up when it counts.
Integrating New Neighbors
The arrival work
Paperwork, appointments, language, and the ordinary systems that decide how a first year in a new country goes.
Your gift: interpretation, and someone who picks up when a letter arrives that nobody in the house can read.
Gate of Hope also walks with families in rural Rwanda, with micro-loans, tuition, healthcare, and pastoral care. To send your gift there, note it in the giving form or write to [email protected].
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Hear it from the people in it.
Two short films. One is new neighbors describing what Gate of Hope has actually been like for them. The other stays close to three of the initiatives your gift supports.
In their own words
What it has been like
People who have been part of this work, talking about their own experience with it. No script, no narrator.
Inside the work
Humura, Gosheni, and Tabara
The women's circle, the farm, and coming alongside people at the hardest moments. The film to send someone who has never heard of us.
Healing in Louisville
"The farm gave her purpose, and people who understood."
In 2019 a new neighbor arrived in Louisville with a badly injured arm. After several surgeries and painful therapy, she had lost hope of using it again. She came to Gosheni, our farm whose name means the healing place, and started small. Pulling weeds. Tending a garden with one hand.
Over time, through steady work and the people around her, she regained the use of both arms. Today she farms at Gosheni as an active, joyful part of the community. Purpose and care did what surgery could not finish.
A Gosheni farmer, Louisville
More ways to give
Give the way that works for you.
Every gift is tax-deductible to the full extent allowed by law.
By mail
Make a check payable to Gate of Hope Ministries International and mail it to:
P.O. Box 6481Louisville, KY 40206
In-kind donations
We gratefully receive clothing closet supplies, including diapers, baby wipes, new blankets, and cleaning supplies.
Email [email protected] for a current needs list.
Give for Good Louisville
Every fall, Louisville gives together for one day, and every dollar given to Gate of Hope that day stays right here.
Prefer to give monthly? Choose the recurring option in the giving form. It takes one extra click and makes a year-round difference.
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Every gift goes straight to the work.
Gate of Hope Ministries International is a registered 501(c)(3) and an ECFA-accredited member. No goods or services are provided in exchange for your gift.
All donations are tax-deductible to the full extent allowed by law. Questions? Call (502) 513-4673 or email [email protected]. Get our news at Join the Movement.
