How Barefoot College Trained 700 Rural Grandmothers to Be Solar Engineers & Electrified 20000 Homes

From Meryl Garcia / The Better India: The Barefoot College Tilonia is a community-based grassroots organization that pairs the skills and intelligence of rural people and ‘experts’ in fields like water, education, renewable energy, health, advocacy, the environment, and communications. The organization works to build the capacity of women and marginalized rural communities to participate in planning, executing, and maintaining their own frameworks for development.

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