Campus Living

Single men's dormitory known as "the monastery".

Veranda of "the monastery". Shoes, water pails, laundry and cooking pots collect here, like men's dorms anywhere.

Water pails on the veranda at "the monastery".

New 6-plex dorm for single men houses 12 students, and is a model for future housing development on campus.

New kitchen building serves the single male students. It features ample counter space and gas burners. There is no running water, electricity or refrigeration, but this new kitchen is a major step forward for the campus, and is a model for future kitchen construction.

Interior of the new kitchen in the single men's quarters.

Lecturer Rev. Paul Idi in his quarters

The heat and humidity are especially hard on the wooden ceilings, as we see here in Rev. Paul's quarters.

A single-family home.

A two-family duplex. This unit will have a common room and sleeping rooms, but no kitchen or bath facilities.

A row of duplexes in the married student neighborhood.

Married student neighborhood.

A duplex in the married student neighborhood.

Married student housing.

Duplexes in the married student neighborhood with a collapsing kitchen hut between the houses.

A typical kitchen hut in the married student neighborhood.

With the poor state of the kitchen huts, most cooking in the married student area is done outdoors over an open fire.

BTS is a community with all ages living on campus. Pull out a camera, and children will suddenly appear, wanting to be "snapped".

Three moms find some shade for an afternoon Bible study while the kids are napping.

A duplex in the married student neighborhood.

This is a new 4-family housing unit. It is a model for future housing construction on campus.

While there is no electricity in the student's quarters, the newer housing units have been built with light fixtures and wiring for ceiling fans in hope that one day power will be available.

Looking past some student housing, out into the mid-day haze on the plains.

Everyone's morning ritual is to gather water for the day's washing and cooking at one of BTS's wells.

A BTS student family at their home.

BTS is a residential campus: faculty, staff and students live there. Ranking faculty occupy single-family homes, there's a neighborhood for married students and a separate area for single men. None of the housing has electricity or plumbing. Much of the housing is older and in a state of decay that is accelerated by the hot, humid climate. Bathrooms are outdoors, dug into the earth and surrounded by grass screening. BTS has no central food service, so students are responsible for their own meals. Cooking in the married student neighborhood is generally done outdoors, over an open fire. There are a number of kitchen huts, but they are in such poor condition as to simply be a place to build a fire in the rain. BTS residents live without running water and largely without electricity.

A new 6-plex dormitory for single men, a new kitchen building for single men and a new multi-family unit in the married student neighborhood have recently been constructed. The buildings appear to be sound and functional and can serve as models for future campus improvements.