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The Lebanese Evangelical School was founded in 1860 by a British lady called Mrs. Bowen Thompson. When she heard of the sufferings in Lebanon due to the civil strife that was present in the country during the early part of 1860, she sailed to Lebanon to try to be of some use to those people who flocked to Beirut from the mountains in search of security. One of the things she thought would be most useful was to start a school. This she did and so was born the Lebanon Evangelical School for Boys and Girls (LESBG).

The school in Tyre was founded in 1868. It currently has 753 pupils, 3 to 18 years old, with 90% of the student body coming from a non-Christian background.

Heart for Lebanon helped the school by paying one third of the amount needed in order to buy a school bus of 24 seats to replace one of the buses that were stolen.