24/Worldwide Projects

Theme:
De-mystifying technology

Motto:
Identifying, respecting and applying existing traditional knowledge and skills - found in semi-literate and unemployed rural youth in India - for the development of their quality of life.

Realization:
Barefoot College, India

Since 29 years the Indian Barefoot College finds unconventional solutions for daily-life problems for the poor in the rural areas of Rajasthan, report Mrs. Ratandevi and Mr. Tejaran.

Puppet-shows in the villages can help to spread the knowledge and the skills needed to solve their usual problems.

Puppet-shows are a traditional way of communication in rural areas in India which is being revived by the Barefoot College.

Mrs. Ratandevi gives an example for a project at the Barefoot College: 250 unemployed young people run 150 evening schools for about 3000 children living in the streets without a possibility to go to school at daytime.

Farmers who can neither read nor write have built up a big college-campus. It has got a storage system for 400.000 liters of raining water and solar panels for sufficient energy supply, says Mrs. Ratandevi.

Contact:
Bunker Roy  
E-mail: bunker@slt.unv.ernet.in
305816  Tilonia
Rajasthan
Tel: +91-1463-42016 
Fax: +91-1463-88206