Over 300 children in Binalbagan
The school that opened as a pre-school in 2011 now runs both junior and senior high school — and is preparing a vocational department.
Groups from the US, the Faroe Islands and Iceland have reached out to surrounding communities with water facilities and medical assistance.
The Light Christian Academy is located in the heart of a community of fishermen, daily labourers and other families living under a great deal of financial strain. Many surrounding communities face a similar situation, with no access to clean drinking water or medical help.
Over the years many groups from the US, the Faroe Islands and Iceland have visited the school and at the same time reached out to the surrounding communities, providing clean drinking water facilities, medical assistance and help in any other way that made the lives of children and their families a little better.
The management is committed to providing such help to more communities in the future.
The school that opened as a pre-school in 2011 now runs both junior and senior high school — and is preparing a vocational department.
What began as the foundation of a single classroom is today a campus with a dormitory, an all-purpose hall, offices and staff housing.