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Bourofaye Christian School, Senegal was started in Ziguinchor in the south of Senegal in 1959. It moved to the village of Bourofaye in 1980, hence the name. Unfortunately it had to be evacuated due to continued rebel fighting in 1997 and moved to the Assemblies of God Bible College just outside the capital, Dakar. The Assemblies of God required use the Bible Collage again so the school needed to be relocated.

After much prayer and discussion they decided it was best to build a new school on a site about two hours drive from Dakar. The school is mainly for the children of missionaries serving the Lord in Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau and Mauritania.

The school was built in stages and many teams and volunteers from around the world helped in this project. LIFT sent two teams:

Project 1

A joinery team who built roof trusses for the dinning room block and erected formwork for a classroom block floor slab them mixed and poured the concrete base and floated the slab all by hand.

Project 2

An electrical team who wired the workshop, classroom block and a dormitory. All this was done with no mains electric on site; it took another few months before this arrived.

Pressure was on so this red field could become a school before the start of term September 2002. In God’s wonderful plan Bourofaye Christian School open for the new term. Work has continued and it is our plan to send another team there in November 2005.

Project Gallery

A gallery of images photographed during this project: