Back to Christian Schools How you can help the Miracle School                 Starfish Asia 32 Beck Lane Beckenham Kent BR3 4RE UK Telephone +44 (0)20 8402 1914 Email mike@starfishasia.com	The Miracle School -- Lahore     Angela and Rubina opened a small school in their own home to cater for the very poorest in their Christian community in Lahore. Fifty children crowded their small front room. They provided not only schooling but also some food and medical attention.   The Miracle School   With help from Starfish Asia, they hired staff and moved to larger rented premises and their new building was soon crowded with 230 children. But the school remains an essentially family affair with Angela, her aunt Rubina and her sister Edna all teaching and caring for the children. Their passion and vision is limited only by their lack of resources, but they are giving Christian teaching and Christian love to children who would otherwise be destined to lives of poverty.   Starfish Asia continues to provide partial support to the school. We have watched the school grow, have enjoyd the fervent enthusiasm of the staff and children -- not to mention the Christian teaching and their love for God.   In 2006, with help from Starfish Asia, the school moved to new and larger premises.   Youhannabad No.2, Lahore Brick Kiln Community School The life of a worker in Pakistan's brick kilns has no romance, little hope and no prospects of improvement. Hundreds of kilns dot the countryside around Lahore. A family together can make about 1000 bricks a day in good weather, for which they are paid about £2 ($3). Many of these workers are Christians. One such community is located in an area known as Youhannabad No.2, east of Lahore. The children have no access to education, no access to Christian teaching outside their homes, and no hope of a future away from making bricks. They are trapped in poverty. Rubina, Angela and her sister Edna from the Miracle School started holding a Sunday School for the Christian children at the brick kiln in 2005. Thmn they dreamed of opening a school. "The village is underprivileged, backward and deserves the basics of a free education, free medical facilities, books and evangelism,” says Angela. "These children also have a right to know Christ and to understand the Bible.” The School opened its doors in a small rented building in January 2007. 150 eager children were registered and began to attend classes -- free of cost, thanks to generous support from Starfish Asia donors.