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| Written by Amy Hanson ~ Staff Writer | |
| Monday, 08 March 2010 | |
 Students at Sandipani Muni Schools, established by FFLV, gain an education to get themselves out of poverty. Miller’s team will be working with Food for Life Vrindavan, a humanitarian organization working to distribute food, water, clothes and medical supplies, aid the elderly and disabled and provide primary school education in an area where 75 percent of children come from families with incomes of less than US $1 a day. FFLV established the Sandipani Muni Schools to service children, from preschool through ninth grade, coming from the poorest villages in the Vrindavan area. Of the more than 1,200 students benefitting from the SMS, nearly ¾ are female. Quoting Brigham Young, Dr. Miller stated, “You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”  The goal of Dr. Miller’s team is to evaluate the education for each grade in the SMS, and compare it to what is being taught in other schools in India and abroad. They also want to make comparisons with children in the same area who have not had the opportunity to attend the school, and study the effect on the alumni of the SMS.
Four psychology students will spend 12 weeks working in India before the rest of the group arrives at the start of First Term. Miller and his students will spend about three weeks in Vrindavan, with airfare paid by BYUH, and accommodations, food and transportation provided for by FFLV. There they will finalize interviews and surveys, and get data. They will spend the second half of the term back in Hawaii, finalizing a written report for the project. Of the 15 students flying to India, several are from India and Fiji, as well as Samoa, Hong Kong, Hawaii and the mainland U.S. “It is what I’ve always imagined to be the culmination of what David O. McKay wanted: every culture working together to help other cultures. I think if we all cared and helped each other, we’d all find we’d be cared for and helped,” Miller said. Dr. Miller has previously travelled with students to Tonga, mainland China and the Philippines to work on similar projects. He explained that he has promised Ph.D. level data, which must withstand scrutiny by accountants and statisticians around the world. He described the expedition, smiling, as a “very intense real world project, where students will have to use every skill they have, plus extra.”
–Photos courtesy of Food for Life Vrindavan
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