Name: Learning from a barefoot movement
Uploaded: 2011-10-17T15:08:51Z
Duration: 18 min 50 s
Description: In Rajasthan, India, an extraordinary school teaches rural women and men -- many of them illiterate -- to become solar engineers, artisans, dentists and doctors in their own villages. It's called the Barefoot College, and its founder, Bunker Roy, explains how it works.

In Rajasthan, India, an extraordinary school teaches rural women and men -- many of them illiterate -- to become solar engineers, artisans, dentists and doctors in their own villages. It's called the Barefoot College, and its founder, Bunker Roy, explains how it works.

Bunker Roy: Learning from a barefoot movement

Learning from a barefoot movement

Transforming rural lives, the Barefoot College empowers illiterate women to become solar engineers, revolutionizing their villages.

In an unconventional college, dropouts and grandmothers become architects and engineers, proving learning transcends classrooms.

By listening to the grassroots, solar electrification in remote areas is led by unlikely heroes: the grandmothers, not engineers.