Nehemiah Project
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Makeshift classrooms

Since the buildings were destroyed, students have been meeting in makeshift classrooms with tarps. They will continue to do so in the fall with nearly 300 students, 40 of whom will graduate later this year.

Gibson hopes to attend those celebrations. In the meantime, he’s back in Birmingham — where he and his wife have lived since fleeing Liberia’s civil war in 1990 — raising funds to rebuild.

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The effort will start with a 33,000-foot-long fence to circle the property and keep students and facilities safe, said Gibson, pastor of Brewster Road Community Church, Birmingham. As they work toward building the fence, they’re calling it the Nehemiah Project, studying and praying through the book of Nehemiah as they look for partners to come alongside to help build the fence foot by foot.