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● projectScaled · national · 2005–presente
Barefoot College — Solar Mamas
Trains illiterate rural women as solar engineers who electrify their own villages.
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01 How it works
02 What it stands on
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EvidenceIRENA–Barefoot College partnership leaves rural footprintInternational Renewable Energy Agency · 2022
03 Lessons learned
Scaled to 93 countries, training 3,500 women (~2.5M people with solar access); the model relies on government/philanthropic support (India's Ministry of External Affairs, IRENA) rather than the market.