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| Barefoot College | |
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| Type | Public |
| Established | 1972 |
| Founder | Bunker Roy |
| Campus | Tilonia |
| Website | www |
Barefoot College, previously known as the Social Work and Research Centre ("SWRC")[1] is a voluntary organisation working in the fields of education, skill development, health, drinking water, women empowerment and electrification through solar power for the upliftment of rural people,[2] which was founded by Bunker Roy in 1972. It is registered under Friends of Tilonia Inc.[3]
The "Villagers' Barefoot College" in the village of Tilonia gives lessons in reading, writing and accounting to adults and children especially the "drop-outs, cop-outs and wash-outs." Girls heavily outnumber boys in the night schools.[4] In 2008 there were approximately 3,000 children attending 150 night schools.[5][6]
In the profile acknowledging Roy as one of Time 100 most influential people for his work with the Barefoot College, Greg Mortenson wrote that the grass-roots social entrepreneurship has trained more than 3 million people for jobs in the modern world, "in buildings so rudimentary they have dirt floors and no chairs" so that poor students feel comfortable.[7]
- ^ The Barefoot College in Tilonia, 1997, Author: Sanjit (Bunker) Roy, Publisher:Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi
- ^ Sarita Brara (30 October 2012). "Lead kindly light". The Hindu. Retrieved 23 November 2012.
- ^ "Donate : Barefoot College". Retrieved 29 March 2017.
- ^ Sanjay Suri. "In pictures: Villagers' Barefoot College". BBC Online. Retrieved 18 November 2012.
- ^ Elkington, John; Hartigan, Pamela (1 February 2008). The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World. Harvard Business Press. pp. 52–. ISBN 9781422104064. Retrieved 23 November 2012.
- ^ Fred de Sam Lazaro (6 October 2008). "School in India Teaches Women to Improve Lives, Towns". PBS. Archived from the original on 10 October 2008. Retrieved 18 November 2012.
- ^ Mortenson, Greg. (29 April 2010) Sanjit 'Bunker' Roy The 2010 TIME 100 Archived 17 August 2013 at the Wayback Machine. TIME. Retrieved on 2 June 2012.