St. Francis School Indirapuram is the leading educational institution of Delhi NCR, founded in 2004 by the Franciscan Brotherhood. More than 3,224 students now receive quality education based on values through innovative teaching and learning methods. The Missionary Brotherhood of St. Francis of Assisi is an international religious fraternity founded in India in 1901 by Pastor Paulus Moritz from Germany, mainly to care for and educate orphans and rural people. Now the congregation has more than one hundred centers in India. These centers include orphanages, schools, formal and informal drop-out technical education centers, leprosy centers, agricultural training farms, youth centers, clinics, pharmacies and hospitals. Religious associations have expanded to South America, Sri Lanka, Germany, Switzerland and Italy to do similar work, with Mumbai as their headquarters.