We Can Beat 27%

January 29, 2010

One of the challenges for the people in Burkina Faso is education. Very few can afford it, and it’s just not available to everyone. According to National Geographic Burkina Faso has the lowest literacy rate in the world. Only 15% can read. In the school system the national average for passing from middle to high school is 27%.

So a huge minority number of the children attend school, and a minority pass the standardized test. Without education kids have no chance to break the cycle of poverty.

Part of our strategy for Burkina Faso is to help break the cycle by investing in the number one school in the country called, Lycee Alliance Christienne or ‘LAC’ for short. LAC is run by a church here in Ouaga and is the number one school in the country. Their students pass the standardized test at an average rate of 87%. One year they had a class hit 97%.

There is a chaplain on staff named Agabuse who cares passionately about the students here. Most of the students at this school arrive Muslim, and over 20% trust Christ each school year. Cabinet members and other gov’t leaders send their children here. Many have trusted Christ, and some are already in positions of influence throughout the country. It is a truly a way to break the cycle of poverty, and to put Christ-followers in the work place.

LAC has an attendance of 400. Our hope is that God would somehow give us the favor and the cash to expand it to over 1,000. The compounded potential of our impact if we are able to accomplish this goal would reap benefits for generations to come.

Everyone Belongs,

Paul

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