Founder Director Bunker Roy
Laureate
- Organisation
- THE BAREFOOT COLLEGE
- Function
- community based organisation
- Country
- India
- Field of work
- Sustainable Land Management, General interest in environmental issues, Sustainable Energy
- Awards
- The Nuclear-Free Future Award, 2001
- Indira Gandhi Paryavaran Puraskar (Indira Gandhi Environment Award), 2002
- The Ashden Awards, 2003
- The St Andrews Prize for the Environment, 2003
- Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, 2004
- Blue Planet Prize, 2011
- Website
- http://www.barefootcollege.org
Training illiterate rural women-called Solar Mamas- from non electrified villages all over the world to be confident and competent solar engineers in 6 months in the Barefoot College in India. They go back and solar electrify their own villages without any help from "outside".Today over 750 Solar Mamas have been trained from 78 of the Least Developed Countries benefiting nearly 500,000 people all south of the Equator