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Barefoot College teaches women to install solar systems in Indian villages
By Mary WippelWhile watching the Lehrer news hour a few days ago, I saw a segment on a wonderful school called the Barefoot College in northern India. Its founder, Bunker Roy said that it was their job to take an illiterate woman and make her into an engineer, and show that she can solar-electrify a village. It began with basics, like finding safe drinking water, then progressed to solar. Instruction is delivered with a mix of body language, a few essential terms in English, and a lot of hands-on practice.Mr. Roy has learned that rural women are the be...
