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Barefoot College
The Barefoot College is a not-for-profit social enterprise working towards financial sustainability, largely through the delivery of its community based solar programs and its artisan industries. We are grassroots, Indian based, international organisation, whose values are grounded in the life and approach of Mahatma Gandhi.
The College applies rural traditional knowledge to meet diverse objectives. Our catalyst for change starts with training women to be solar engineers. We spread socioeconomic messages at the grassroot level. We employ only those technologies that can be understood and controlled by rural communities to improve the quality of life of the poor.
The Barefoot College Approach is grounded in a partnership model between individuals and their communities. These essential elements inform the Barefoot Solution:
• Access to energy and education, better health, and sustainable livelihoods that directly impact women.
• Reversing urban migration.
• Focus on the least developed countries targeted by the United Nations, tribal and indigenous communities under threat, post conflict/refugee situations, and developing countries facing urgent challenges of climate change and disaster.
• Employing a public, private and people’s partnership model that affects lasting policy change for the inclusion of decentralized, community self-sufficient models of renewable energy delivery.
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Name:
B. Kirubhagar
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7418691961
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kirubha@barefootcollege.org
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BAREFOOT COLLEGE
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Directions
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The Barefoot Approach has spread to 91 countries till now. Now the College itself is also expanding to regional facilities in Africa, Latin America and Southern Asia.
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Last Updated On
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06-26-2024
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