Paving the Way to Gender Equality Barefoot College has been spearheading innovative educational programs around the world for decades. One of its key missions is to provide education to women and girls who often otherwise...
Category: Rural Education
Our Successful Remote Learning Programs Our Education programs did not stop for the global pandemic, as it swept across every country regardless of class, culture or creed. Adapting to the crisis, our Barefoot Education Team...
An ARMY That Does Good Deeds K-Pop band BTS is considered the biggest band in the world– their newest release “Dynamite” has recently enjoyed a second week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot...
September 9, 2020
Barefoot College Keeps Education Accessible The Barefoot College Education team has been implementing its new programs to help encourage continued learning despite school closures due to pandemic-based restrictions. The Alternative COVID Strategy has adopted...
A Dream of Equality Imagine a school where children have the freedom to wear clothes of any gender, any colour, and any style they feel comfortable in. A school where boys learn the art of...
April 11, 2020
Independence Day is a time to acknowledge the past while looking towards a future where everyone can live favourably. This year, Barefoot’s Shikshaniketan school embraced a critical and constructive approach to celebrating the 73rd Independence...
Green Tools at a Green School One of our evergreen programs at Barefoot College is our Solar Engineering training, dedicated to teaching illiterate and semi-illiterate adult women how to assemble, install and maintain solar panels...
The Barefoot Rise Fellowship offers motivated individuals the opportunity to develop and expand in many areas. The fellowship is a minimum one-year commitment, with options to extend for a second year. During the first-year fellows...
January 7, 2019
We are pleased to announce that Prayag Ichangimath, our Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (aka STEAM) Education coordinator has been chosen to accept an award under a Tech Innovation category for his Portable Science...
Written by Shuvajit Payne, Head of Barefoot’s Education Dept. & Sanjana Yadav, SBI Youth For India Fellow. “Didi, mai kal jaa raha hoon” (Sister, I will leave tomorrow), “Bhaiya, hum phir nahi milenge” (Brother, we...
