Nowadays, GEMS Education is the world’s largest operator of private kindergarten-to-grade-12 schools. It has built a network of 132 schools that house 142,000 students and 13,400 staff, mainly teachers, all over the Middle East, Africa, Europe, China, and India. As part of its constitution, GEMS has a consultancy that advises both governments and nonprofits, as well as a GEMS Foundation which thrives to improve the lives of 100 impoverished children for each child enrolled at a GEMS school. Bill Clinton serves as honorary chairman of Varkey’s GEMS Foundation.