Red clay bricks made from the dirt in this very compound sit one upon the other to form this
semi-finished school building which is used to house three classes of nursery
school children. A year and a half ago I showed you a picture of this
unfinished school building (unfortunately that photo was among one single batch
somehow lost...sniffle) and told you it’d taken that long to get the construction to the
half way mark. Based on a lesson from our first visit to Barrio, Lira, Pastor
Patrick strove for providing a quality Christian education and as a result has
quite a demand for seats (though the children actually sit on the ground). Finally, the three-room school is complete and the
teachers are educating about 60 children under its shade.
However, without the primary level school classrooms,
parents are reluctant to start their children given that they’ll not be able to
continue in the school as they pass each grade. A grand graduation ceremony is
planned in November during which Pastor Patrick is praying for heightened
awareness as well as gifts that will help with constructing the additional
rooms needed to grow the children and the school.