Barefoot college
शैक्षणिक पदवीचा ‘स्मृती’दिन ! (In Marathi)

शैक्षणिक पात्रता आणि कर्तृत्व यांचा परस्परसंबंध लावावा हे आजच्या एकविसाव्या शतकातही कोणाच्या तरी मनात येतं आणि त्यावर वाद होऊ शकतात, हे खूपच दुर्दैवी आहे.

A Glimpse of Barefoot College

A group of local village women attended the Barefoot College Parabolic Solar Cooker workshop, and then started a cooperative to cut, weld, build and use more of these themselves.

Vigyan Ashram, Pabal, Pune

With its firm belief in ‘Learning by Doing’, Vigyan Ashram at Pabal, Maharashtra has, over past 3 decades, transformed the lives of hundreds of rural youth who the mainstream education system might have rejected as ‘failures’. A modern version of the Gurukula system, “Vigyan” means ‘Search of Truth’ and “Ashram” symbolises ‘simple living and high thinking”.

A Barefoot Journey to Tilonia

In 1965 a young post graduate student, SANJIT “BUNKER” ROY volunteered to spend the summer working with famine affected people in Palamu District Bihar, now Jharkhand, one of the poorest of India’s states. His urban elitist upbringing had distanced him from poverty and destitution. This experience changed him, and formed the determination to fight poverty and inequality. It became his mission. The idea of the SWRC (Social Works and Research Centre), Tilonia emerged from these concerns.