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by Robert Schmidt PH.D
by Andy Zalit
by Matthew Hillman
by Tyson Stevens
by Allison Dastrup
I founded a nonprofit organization called Effect International. In just one year Effect International has successfully opened a primary school in a rural Indian community of 30,000 people.
The school has enrolled 120 impoverished children, hired 4 local teachers and a principal, collected 25,000 books for distribution in India and Nepal, and secured a donation of 10,000 square meters of land in India upon which to build schools and reading rooms.
This summer, Effect International will build two more schools, which will enable over 400 additional impoverished children to attend school. I was recently awarded the 2011 Utah State University Civically Engaged Student.