The Shumaker Family's Blog

Back in 2006, my mother began helping kids go to school here in Burkina Faso. She talked with her friends and family and many of them began to give. Each year, we were able to do more and more to help. We currently help with 44 children. They come to the church on Thursdays, and we teach them the Bible and principles of life and feed them. We pay all of their school tuition. Many have lost one of their parents; some have lost both.

God touched the heart of one man to give an offering towards building a school. Since then, we have saved a little more each year for the construction of the school. There were many setbacks, but a few months ago, we began building with the hopes of starting a school this fall. Here are the pictures of the construction so far:

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