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About the Organisation
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Train 5000 rural semi-literate/illiterate women with Enriche and Livelihoods curriculum by 2022 in India
GROWTH AND SCALE: Barefoot College is working to scale and deepen its impact. We strive to open seven regional training centers in India
SOLAR TRAINING: Barefoot College seeks to train 120 international women and 160 Indian women from various villages around the globe at our campus in Tilonia, a training that is now being replicated in regional centers as they are opened.
ENRICHE: Test Enriche Curriculum with 280 rural women and develop an App so that the curriculum can be accessed from anywhere in the world
MICRO ENTERPRISE: Through Enriche training, launch enterprise activities for beneficiaries in economically viable work producing and selling coffee, honey, health supplements, or clothing/sewing.
EDUCATION: Expand to 200 Solar Digital Night Schools in India to give increased education opportunities to rural poor children often left behind in mainstream education.
HEALTH: To provide increased access to basic health care and reproductive health care for women to those unable to participate in normative, cost-prohibited health care.
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-NGO Advisor #16 of 500 NGOs Worldwide in 2019
-Bindi : INDIA’S FIRST GLOBAL SOLAR PRODUCTS LAUNCHED BY WOMEN.
-On 24th October 2018, the Fijian Government (Ministry of Women, Children and Poverty Alleviation) and Barefoot College signed a formal agreement to construct a Barefoot College in Vanua Levu, North Fiji. The College will be focusing on the localisation of 11 sustainable development goals through and with rural Pacific Island Women across Fiji and 14 Pacific island nations.
-Opening of Burkina Faso and Madagascar Vocational Training Centres
-Our CEO and Director Meagan Fallone recognized as 2018 Hillary Laureate by Hillary Institute for demonstrating extraordinary mid-career leadership.
-Our CEO and Director Meagan Fallone was present for the Women Lead Climate event as one of the founding signatories and supporters of this pivotal global initiative.
-Our Master Trainers assembled Solar Workshop in partnership with Hogan Lovells at SDG Festival of Action 2019 in Germany
-Barefoot College case study in the International Renewable Energy Agency’s report ‘Renewable Energy: A Gender Perspective’
-Won National Energy Globe Award Madagascar 2019
-Won 2019 CSR Impact Award under Women Empowerment category
-Won Special Recognition at NASSCOM Foundation’s 2019 Tech For Good Award for Digital Night School Model
-Won 2018 Earth Care Award
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Certified by GuideStar India for Advanced Level- GuideStar India Gold. Valid till 31-Mar-2018. To know current certification status, please visit GuideStar India List of Certified NGOs [Opens in a new window]
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In 1965 a young postgraduate student, Sanjit (Bunker) Roy volunteered to spend the summer working with famine affected people in Palamu District Bihar, now Jharkhand, one of the poorest of India’s states. This experience changed him and inspired a determination to fight poverty and inequality. The idea of SWRC (Social Work Research Centre) emerged from this mission. In the late 60’s, a small group of determined educated youth started looking for alternative ways of addressing poverty in rural India. This search for working models, approaches and strategies led some of them to live and work in villages. The answer seemed to lie in beginning a dialogue between the specialist and the “farmer” in a relationship born of equality and respect. In 1972, Meghraj from Tilonia village and Bunker Roy, then a new graduate of Delhi University, became friends and shared a dream grafting formal urban knowledge on rural wisdom to create a world without want. Anil Bordia, the then collector of Ajmer, helped them lease the premises of an abandoned Tuberculosis Sanatorium from the Government at Re.1 a month, in Tilonia.
In the beginning, the “professionals” were geologists, economists, doctors, social workers, chartered accountants, graduates and postgraduates who came to share this dream with concerned villagers. While questioning the system’s sluggish delivery of promised basic services, assumptions of technological competence in development programs were also challenged. The early 80’s saw a substantial shift in the backgrounds of workers in SWRC. The rural illiterate youth were now the dominant actors, planning, taking charge of activities and initiating ideas. They replaced the urban middle class, transient professional. The management of SWRC was designed as a participatory decision-making process to implement the organization’s six non-negotiable values: 1. Austerity 2. Equality 3. Collective Decision-Making 4. Decentralization 5. Self-Evaluation 6. Transparency and Accountability.
Gradually, SWRC became the Barefoot College. The term barefoot originated in China and its village health workers. The phrase describes the SWRC’s concept of an organization committed to the poor, neglected and marginalized sections of society. Tilonia’s first ‘Barefoot professionals’ were health workers. Then emerged a community of ‘Barefoot teachers’. The Barefoot concept was further strengthened with the rural craft section, supplementing the income of craftspersons and migrant workers, to sell in contemporary markets. All these were a part of the barefoot solutions in the initial years. Broad-based legal education and peoples’ mobilization led to protests against injustice. Whether it was land rights for Dalits, claiming minimum wages on public works, mobilizing against reprehensible social traditions like sati, rape and caste discrimination SWRC/Barefoot College played a role.
Since its inception, the long-term objective of the Barefoot College has been to work with marginalized, exploited and impoverished rural poor, living on less than $1 a day, and lift them over the poverty line with dignity and self-respect. The dream was to establish a rural college in India that was built by and exclusively for the poor. For more than 40 years, Barefoot has worked to improve the quality of life of the rural poor, focusing efforts on basic needs: water, health, education, energy, environmental regeneration and gainful employment building on existing skills, while enrolling individuals in the processes that govern their lives.
The College believes that for any rural development activity to be successful and sustainable, it must be based in the village as well as managed and owned by those whom it serves. Therefore all Barefoot initiatives, whether social, political or economic, are planned and implemented by a network of rural men and women known as ‘Barefoot Professionals’. Rural men and women, irrespective of age, who are barely literate or not at all, and have no hope of getting even the lowest government job, are being trained to work as day and night school teachers, doctors, midwives, dentists, health workers, balsevikas, solar engineers, solar cooker engineers, water drillers, hand pump mechanics, architects, artisans, designers, masons, communicators, water testers, phone operators, blacksmiths, carpenters, computer instructors, accountants and kabaad-se-jugaad (recycling) professionals. With a little guidance, encouragement, and space to grow and exhibit their talent and abilities, people who have been considered ‘very ordinary’ and written off by society, are doing extraordinary things that defy description.
Our Mission is to disseminate the Barefoot Approach through all Barefoot Strategic Program Initiatives, affirming that it accomplishes what many less comprehensive approaches have failed to achieve:Sustainable value change for communities, strong environmental,impact, and overall community transformation and empowerment. We will advocate for its inclusion at our highest levels of influence and within all partnerships, using concrete data to convey its direct.
We are working to build a sustainable world where the transfer of life changing technology, access to information and the ability for communities in the developing world to share innovation designed and deployed with them at the centre, is the only acceptable solution to eradicate poverty.
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AAATS3518F
PAN Registration Document
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125410009
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