The Barefoot College
Sanjit "Bunker" Roy tells in a TED talk of the "Barefoot College" , the educational NGO which is changing the developing world - The Barefoot College is a non-government organisation whose objective is to supply rural communities with self-sufficient and sustainable solutions. Its main fields of operation are: solar energy, water, education, health care, rural handicrafts, people’s action, communication, women’s empowerment and wasteland development. The Barefoot initiatives are planned and implemented by rural men and women who are known as ‘Barefoot Professionals’. These are rural men and women irrespective of age, who although barely literate or not at all, were trained to work in various professions - day and night school teachers, doctors, midwives, dentists, health workers, solar engineers, water drillers, hand pump mechanics, artisans, designers, masons, water testers, phone operators, blacksmiths, carpenters,