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Dr. Abraham George

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Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Creating a Legacy of Hope: Dr. Abraham George on Educating India’s Underrepresented | EP 550

And right now there are over 300 children in one school and we just started the second school. There are 60 children in the second school. That will also grow into 320 children. So altogether there'll be 600 plus children in both schools combined.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Creating a Legacy of Hope: Dr. Abraham George on Educating India’s Underrepresented | EP 550

And right now there are over 300 children in one school and we just started the second school. There are 60 children in the second school. That will also grow into 320 children. So altogether there'll be 600 plus children in both schools combined.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Creating a Legacy of Hope: Dr. Abraham George on Educating India’s Underrepresented | EP 550

And right now there are over 300 children in one school and we just started the second school. There are 60 children in the second school. That will also grow into 320 children. So altogether there'll be 600 plus children in both schools combined.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Creating a Legacy of Hope: Dr. Abraham George on Educating India’s Underrepresented | EP 550

Definitely, definitely. I initially started with Shanti Bhavan, which is the school for children from deprived communities. But as I got going, I realized there are so many interrelated problems. For example, The women in the villages, they were extremely poor. They didn't have jobs. They were working for landlords. So I started a banana cultivation of almost 200 acres.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Creating a Legacy of Hope: Dr. Abraham George on Educating India’s Underrepresented | EP 550

Definitely, definitely. I initially started with Shanti Bhavan, which is the school for children from deprived communities. But as I got going, I realized there are so many interrelated problems. For example, The women in the villages, they were extremely poor. They didn't have jobs. They were working for landlords. So I started a banana cultivation of almost 200 acres.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Creating a Legacy of Hope: Dr. Abraham George on Educating India’s Underrepresented | EP 550

Definitely, definitely. I initially started with Shanti Bhavan, which is the school for children from deprived communities. But as I got going, I realized there are so many interrelated problems. For example, The women in the villages, they were extremely poor. They didn't have jobs. They were working for landlords. So I started a banana cultivation of almost 200 acres.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Creating a Legacy of Hope: Dr. Abraham George on Educating India’s Underrepresented | EP 550

We were harvesting tons and tons of bananas. Unfortunately, the rain stopped with climate change and everything, and I got into trouble there. Then I realized that one of the reasons for poverty is bad governance. And I felt that maybe I should start a postgraduate journalism college. And so we built the facilities and it turned out to become the best journalism postgraduate college in India.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Creating a Legacy of Hope: Dr. Abraham George on Educating India’s Underrepresented | EP 550

We were harvesting tons and tons of bananas. Unfortunately, the rain stopped with climate change and everything, and I got into trouble there. Then I realized that one of the reasons for poverty is bad governance. And I felt that maybe I should start a postgraduate journalism college. And so we built the facilities and it turned out to become the best journalism postgraduate college in India.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Creating a Legacy of Hope: Dr. Abraham George on Educating India’s Underrepresented | EP 550

We were harvesting tons and tons of bananas. Unfortunately, the rain stopped with climate change and everything, and I got into trouble there. Then I realized that one of the reasons for poverty is bad governance. And I felt that maybe I should start a postgraduate journalism college. And so we built the facilities and it turned out to become the best journalism postgraduate college in India.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Creating a Legacy of Hope: Dr. Abraham George on Educating India’s Underrepresented | EP 550

Then I was doing that, I realized that people, the villagers have to travel a long way to get medical care and there is nothing close by, so I started a hospital close by. Like that, one after the other. But one of the most important things I did was in the area of lead poisoning. The cities were suffering from pollution, and lead was one of the major pollutants in the late 90s.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Creating a Legacy of Hope: Dr. Abraham George on Educating India’s Underrepresented | EP 550

Then I was doing that, I realized that people, the villagers have to travel a long way to get medical care and there is nothing close by, so I started a hospital close by. Like that, one after the other. But one of the most important things I did was in the area of lead poisoning. The cities were suffering from pollution, and lead was one of the major pollutants in the late 90s.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Creating a Legacy of Hope: Dr. Abraham George on Educating India’s Underrepresented | EP 550

Then I was doing that, I realized that people, the villagers have to travel a long way to get medical care and there is nothing close by, so I started a hospital close by. Like that, one after the other. But one of the most important things I did was in the area of lead poisoning. The cities were suffering from pollution, and lead was one of the major pollutants in the late 90s.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Creating a Legacy of Hope: Dr. Abraham George on Educating India’s Underrepresented | EP 550

And so I went to World Bank and others and CDC, and they trained me on that, and I brought equipment and did some 20,000 children. Lead test was done. And that led to a conference at which we persuaded the oil companies to come. And they came and announced that within a year and a half, they will introduce unleaded gasoline. And today, India is unleaded.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Creating a Legacy of Hope: Dr. Abraham George on Educating India’s Underrepresented | EP 550

And so I went to World Bank and others and CDC, and they trained me on that, and I brought equipment and did some 20,000 children. Lead test was done. And that led to a conference at which we persuaded the oil companies to come. And they came and announced that within a year and a half, they will introduce unleaded gasoline. And today, India is unleaded.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Creating a Legacy of Hope: Dr. Abraham George on Educating India’s Underrepresented | EP 550

And so I went to World Bank and others and CDC, and they trained me on that, and I brought equipment and did some 20,000 children. Lead test was done. And that led to a conference at which we persuaded the oil companies to come. And they came and announced that within a year and a half, they will introduce unleaded gasoline. And today, India is unleaded.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Creating a Legacy of Hope: Dr. Abraham George on Educating India’s Underrepresented | EP 550

So I got myself into so many projects with my own money. And in some ways, it was a mistake. And I also thought that the properties I brought by the beachfront, there are only so many properties by the beachfront, so it'll never go down in value. Well, Katrina came along and then... The subprime crisis came along and all the values of properties fell by more than 50%.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Creating a Legacy of Hope: Dr. Abraham George on Educating India’s Underrepresented | EP 550

So I got myself into so many projects with my own money. And in some ways, it was a mistake. And I also thought that the properties I brought by the beachfront, there are only so many properties by the beachfront, so it'll never go down in value. Well, Katrina came along and then... The subprime crisis came along and all the values of properties fell by more than 50%.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Creating a Legacy of Hope: Dr. Abraham George on Educating India’s Underrepresented | EP 550

So I got myself into so many projects with my own money. And in some ways, it was a mistake. And I also thought that the properties I brought by the beachfront, there are only so many properties by the beachfront, so it'll never go down in value. Well, Katrina came along and then... The subprime crisis came along and all the values of properties fell by more than 50%.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Creating a Legacy of Hope: Dr. Abraham George on Educating India’s Underrepresented | EP 550

So all my investment in real estate went to docks. And then stock market collapsed on me. And so one thing after another is a cascade. And I lost a great significant part of my wealth. And in the meantime, I was spending millions of dollars here in India, and I realized that I couldn't sustain it.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
Creating a Legacy of Hope: Dr. Abraham George on Educating India’s Underrepresented | EP 550

So all my investment in real estate went to docks. And then stock market collapsed on me. And so one thing after another is a cascade. And I lost a great significant part of my wealth. And in the meantime, I was spending millions of dollars here in India, and I realized that I couldn't sustain it.