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Can’t Read? Here’s a ‘Barefoot College’ for You.

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Wired

Disrupting poverty: How Barefoot College is empowering women through peer-to-peer learning and technology

Roy estimates that, in India, the Barefoot solar-electrification programme saves two million litres of kerosene every year. The tech used at Barefoot College is simple -- nothing more than a mobile ...
Indiatimes

How Bunker Roy built a college where rural grandmothers become solar engineer

At first glance, the idea sounds almost like a parable: send a grandmother to school, teach her to wire a solar panel, send her back home, and watch an entire village change. But that is exactly the ...
Hazleton Standard Speaker

Can’t read? Here’s a ‘Barefoot College’ for you

TILONIA, India – It’s the Harvard of rural India, minus wingtips or heels: a 50-year-old institution called Barefoot College that offers lessons for empowering people worldwide. Maybe even in America.
Santa Rosa Press Democrat

Kristof: Can’t read? Here’s a ‘Barefoot College’ for you

It’s the Harvard of rural India, minus wingtips or heels: a 50-year-old institution called Barefoot College that offers lessons for empowering people worldwide. Maybe even in America. Barefoot College ...