How Do Women Get The Solar Panel Resources Barefoot Colelge

Since 2005 more than 140 women from africa many of them grandmothers almost all of them illiterate have trained at the barefoot college in india.

How do women get the solar panel resources barefoot colelge. As if this would not be enough the local barefoot college trains illiterate women to become solar engineers and spread the light. The social work and research centre swrc widely known as the barefoot college is a voluntary organisation in india working in the fields of education skill development health drinking water women empowerment and electrification through solar power for the upliftment of rural people which was founded by bunker roy in 1972. The film is part of why poverty. Lighting from solar energy.

The grounds in tilonia spread over eight acres run entirely on solar energy maintained by the barefoot solar engineers. Over 15 000 women from 83 countries have received training in various. The villagers barefoot college in the village of tilonia. And women and girls lead and premieres on independent lens on monday november 5 at 10 pm check local listings.

These mirrors track then capture the sun s energy and direct it to a cooker which really cooks. Local problem local solution. The barefoot college connects rural communities to solar water education professions and advocacy to help communities and individuals take control of their lives and the wellbeing of their communities. The solar cookers made at the barefoot college are a simple but precisely engineered contraption.

In november 2003 the barefoot college created the society of women barefoot solar cooker engineers in tilonia rajasthan. One of the main programs at. Documentaries can do that. We need engaging and entertaining stories that give us other views of the world.

For sita devi who has only a second grade education working on the cookers means she can hope for more for her baby girl. Entrusting women with leadership roles the philosophy that underpins barefoot college zanzibar is that by educating rural women they will in turn become the chief change makers in their communities. It is the first association of illiterate and semi literate women who fabricate install and maintain parabolic solar cookers in their homes. In six months these women learned how to fabricate install and maintain solar powered household lighting systems and have become barefoot solar engineers transforming.