Intro to Alex in
India
As I
sat in my first day of a class I thought ‘sounded cool’ called Design for Sustainable
Development at the University of Minnesota, I couldn’t have imagined that it
would lead to where I am sitting right now.
I mean, the professors told me that it could
have happened, but our team needed to win the so called ACARA Challenge and to (what
sounded to me like) solve world hunger. Yeah,
right. A few weeks into the program we
couldn’t plan a group meeting, much less develop a business solution to solve poverty
in India.
Well, I’m
writing this because I’m sitting in a guest house in New Delhi, India to
further a project, not to solve world hunger, but hopefully supply some green,
cheap cooking fuel to people who make the equivalent of 1 or 2 US dollars a day. Here is a quick video:
I will
be In India until July 22 to answer one question: Will this work? If yes, then we/I would come back to the US
find investors, and hopefully set up plans to return to India and build a
biogas plant.
But
starting a biogas business to help the poor is only the start. Spiritually, India is in great need. In a society
that is built heavily on a domineering caste system, India is 74% Hindu, 15%
Muslim and 6% Christian.
I
really look forward to getting involved in a Church/ministry during my time here
to learn about how the Gospel is moving here.
I’m just starting to get a feel for what it is like spiritually here,
and what people believe. Please pray for my relationships with my teammates,
friends and business contacts here.
There is so much to share, but I first wanted to just give a
little intro! More to come about my
travels and adventures soon.
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