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Development projects the world over run into one crucial point: For a project to live on, it needs to be organic, owned and sustained by those it serves. In 1972, Sanjit “Bunker” Roy founded the Barefoot College, in the village of Tilonia in Rajasthan, India, with just this mission: to provide basic services and solutions in rural communities with the objective of making them self-sufficient. These “barefoot solutions” can be broadly categorized into solar energy, water, education, health care, rural handicrafts, people’s action, communication, women’s empowerment and wasteland development. The Barefoot College education program, for instance, teaches literacy and also skills, encouraging learning-by-doing. (Literacy is only part of it.) Bunker’s organization has also successfully trained grandmothers from Africa and the Himalayan region to be solar engineers so they can bring electricity to their remote villages.
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ResearchNRDC is the national research and development centre for adult literacy, numeracy and ESOL. NRDC is now an independent centre working to improve practice and inform policy through research and development.
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PolicyNIACE is the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, the national voice for lifelong learning. We are a large, internationally respected development organisation and think-tank, working on issues central to the economic renewal of the UK.
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