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About 240 million Indians lack reliable electricity supply in India, according to an International Energy Agency report in 2015. While the government is banking heavily on large-scale solar power ...

Key people: Sanjit Bunker Roy, Founder; Sowmya Kidambi, Director & CEO Year of inception: 1972 Barefoot College began as a deceptively simple idea. In the early 1970s, Sanjit 'Bunker' Roy—an alumnus ...

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.

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 ...

Six months after their journey from Madagascar to the Barefoot College in Tilonia, India, Kingeline, Hanitra, Yollande and Remeza finished their training. Known as the solar grandmas of Ambakivao, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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 ...