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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

Find a partnership organization or join a group of people who have deep pockets and say to them, listen, you have the money. I have the commitment. I will deliver what we both agree on. Help me and show from the start that you will do what you promised.

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

Find a partnership organization or join a group of people who have deep pockets and say to them, listen, you have the money. I have the commitment. I will deliver what we both agree on. Help me and show from the start that you will do what you promised.

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

Find a partnership organization or join a group of people who have deep pockets and say to them, listen, you have the money. I have the commitment. I will deliver what we both agree on. Help me and show from the start that you will do what you promised.

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

I am amazed that you should know so much about India. that I don't have to tell you. But anyway, what you observed is correct. Once you come out of the major cities like Bangalore and hardly 20 kilometers, everything, there is no infrastructure at all. People are living in huts. The roads are full of potholes. and no real shops and so on.

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

I am amazed that you should know so much about India. that I don't have to tell you. But anyway, what you observed is correct. Once you come out of the major cities like Bangalore and hardly 20 kilometers, everything, there is no infrastructure at all. People are living in huts. The roads are full of potholes. and no real shops and so on.

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

I am amazed that you should know so much about India. that I don't have to tell you. But anyway, what you observed is correct. Once you come out of the major cities like Bangalore and hardly 20 kilometers, everything, there is no infrastructure at all. People are living in huts. The roads are full of potholes. and no real shops and so on.

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

So when I first discovered this piece of land in this village, there was no electricity. There was no water supply. The telephone lines, some cell phone would work from the top of some hill. That's where I started. And there were no roads properly. And I had to do almost everything. We decided to use solar power. In fact, the British Petroleum, which had solar panels, we bought from them.

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

So when I first discovered this piece of land in this village, there was no electricity. There was no water supply. The telephone lines, some cell phone would work from the top of some hill. That's where I started. And there were no roads properly. And I had to do almost everything. We decided to use solar power. In fact, the British Petroleum, which had solar panels, we bought from them.

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

So when I first discovered this piece of land in this village, there was no electricity. There was no water supply. The telephone lines, some cell phone would work from the top of some hill. That's where I started. And there were no roads properly. And I had to do almost everything. We decided to use solar power. In fact, the British Petroleum, which had solar panels, we bought from them.

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

And later on, when we started running the entire school on solar, 30 years ago, when nobody was talking about solar, the British Petroleum came and took a film and showed it at G8 summit where President Ellison and President Clinton were having their summit. So a little historic footnote about our solar effort. And telephone lines got improved over time as the cell phone industry got going.

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

And later on, when we started running the entire school on solar, 30 years ago, when nobody was talking about solar, the British Petroleum came and took a film and showed it at G8 summit where President Ellison and President Clinton were having their summit. So a little historic footnote about our solar effort. And telephone lines got improved over time as the cell phone industry got going.

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

And later on, when we started running the entire school on solar, 30 years ago, when nobody was talking about solar, the British Petroleum came and took a film and showed it at G8 summit where President Ellison and President Clinton were having their summit. So a little historic footnote about our solar effort. And telephone lines got improved over time as the cell phone industry got going.

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

And water, we have deep wells. Some of those wells go down as deep as 1,000 feet. We have a whole lot of wells, and we pump the wells. And today we pump the water out with solar panels. So again, we are not using electricity from the public service. So you find solutions. And then the road, the nearest four or five kilometers to our school was impossible to navigate with all those potholes.

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

And water, we have deep wells. Some of those wells go down as deep as 1,000 feet. We have a whole lot of wells, and we pump the wells. And today we pump the water out with solar panels. So again, we are not using electricity from the public service. So you find solutions. And then the road, the nearest four or five kilometers to our school was impossible to navigate with all those potholes.

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

And water, we have deep wells. Some of those wells go down as deep as 1,000 feet. We have a whole lot of wells, and we pump the wells. And today we pump the water out with solar panels. So again, we are not using electricity from the public service. So you find solutions. And then the road, the nearest four or five kilometers to our school was impossible to navigate with all those potholes.

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

So after trying for five years, trying to get the government to do something, they weren't doing. So we just had to spend the money and build the road, tarred road. That's how we got here. So we overcame many hurdles, but that's part of living in a remote area. And if you find solutions one by one, you will be able to move forward.

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

So after trying for five years, trying to get the government to do something, they weren't doing. So we just had to spend the money and build the road, tarred road. That's how we got here. So we overcame many hurdles, but that's part of living in a remote area. And if you find solutions one by one, you will be able to move forward.

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

So after trying for five years, trying to get the government to do something, they weren't doing. So we just had to spend the money and build the road, tarred road. That's how we got here. So we overcame many hurdles, but that's part of living in a remote area. And if you find solutions one by one, you will be able to move forward.

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

Yes, absolutely. You have to be patient, especially in rural areas, trying to de-government. Nothing happens sometimes. You just can't get frustrated. Contractors don't want to work in remote rural areas. There are so many hurdles you have to overcome. The solar panel is a perfect example where we didn't have to rely on too many people to buy from British Petroleum.

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

Yes, absolutely. You have to be patient, especially in rural areas, trying to de-government. Nothing happens sometimes. You just can't get frustrated. Contractors don't want to work in remote rural areas. There are so many hurdles you have to overcome. The solar panel is a perfect example where we didn't have to rely on too many people to buy from British Petroleum.