April 30, 2024

The Indian government only funds Arni School through the 10th grade. SAF’s 2023 grant of $6,000 plus the donation of $4,000 by a SAF director, allowed Arni School to provide teachers for 11th and 12th grades. This allowed students to graduate with a high school diploma making them eligible to apply to higher educational institutions. […]

In January, 2024, SAF first vice president, Dr. James Hamilton Taylor, Dr. Silas Scudder’s great-great grandson, unveiled the plaque commemorating the five Scudder couples who served at SMH between 1866 and the retirement of Dr. Galen Scudder in 1954. Founded on March 17, 1866, in Ranipet South India by Dr. Silas, Scudder Hospital was the