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“Building: one major orphanage project completed this year, and two were launched and will be completed in 2014. At maradiyur, this impoverished area now has a home for our orphaned girls and other poor village girls who otherwise would never have the opportunity to go to school. At maradiyur girls who, at the age of eight or ten might have already been working in a cotton field or rice paddy, will instead be going to school and forging a new, productive life for themselves. And village women will learn skills that will lift them out of poverty. Our 70 girls at secunderabad will soon sleep in a bed - something most of them have never experienced before. They will have study rooms, computers; in a sanitary kitchen they will help prepare healthy food. And we will have room for some 80 girls in addition. At solabasti, in assam, in the northeast of india, we began construction of an orphanage/hostel/training centre that will transform the life of this poor tea-growing village. There, women earn 1.50 per day, picking 50 pounds of tea and their daughters would have faced a similar future. Now, orphaned and neglected girls will have a home and villagers the opportunity to learn skills that will lift them out of poverty. Education: this is the second year for our exciting new program, the "thinking schools academy". Led by dr. David paige of bellarmine university in louisville, the objective is to teach methods to teachers so that they might encourage higer level thinking in their instruction. Too much of indian education is based around memorization. With "thinking schools", we are preparing our indian students to be problem solvers, to "think outside the box", to be creative and innovative. We laid plans for two 2014 "education summits" that will extend thinking schools to six more schools and demonstrate it can be the model for education throughout india and in other developing contries. A shipment of some 80,000 books created and enhanced libraries at our 18 schools. Health and wellness: water is critical and safe drinking water essentialso we drilled wells, built storage tanks this year and secured grants to purchase solar-powered water purification units and install reverse osmosis units so that all our 32 sites have clean water. We procured grants to fund critically needed medical procedures. We provided funds for purchase of nutritious brown rice, fruits and vegetables to supplement diets.”