“Bring the Sun Home”, a documentary film about the Barefoot women solar engineers, will be screening at the 66th Locarno Film Festival in Locarno, Switzerland on August 15 & 16 at Cinema Rialto. Watch the...
Category: Solar Electrification
A film by Yasmin Kidwai about Barefoot College won Best Documentary at the 2013 Zanzibar International Film Festival! This festival is considered to be the biggest film festival in all of East Africa. To learn...
July 17, 2013
Barefoot College is delighted to invite you to the premiere screening of the award winning documentary film Rafea: Solar Mama at the Arditi Auditorium. PROGRAMME 18:00 | WELCOME DRINK 18:45 | FILM SCREENING Welcome remarks by: H.E....
May 13, 2013
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March 19, 2013
Rafea Anadi appears almost lost within her long, black veil. Short of stature and slightly bowed, she seems she could be blown away by the wind. But one look in her dark brown eyes –...
November 30, 2012
DOC NYC – 2 awards : Special Jury Prize Winner – Rafea: Solar Mama: Jurors’ statement: “The Special Jury Prize goes to a story whose genuine hope and uplift, whose urgency of matter, are only...
November 29, 2012
Our team over at Independent Lens sat down with Mette Heide, producer of Solar Mamas, to talk about why she and her filmmaking team chose this story, and what inspired them along the way. The...
November 5, 2012
The Barefoot Approach: Women Barefoot Solar Engineers of Africa The Women Barefoot Solar Engineers of Africa aim to improve the lives of the rural poor living on less than $1 a day in remote inaccessible...
November 4, 2012
Organization(s): UNDP in cooperation with the Barefoot College (India) and the Ministry of Federal Affairs, Ethiopia Country(ies): Ethiopia Primary thematic focus: Sub-national capacity development: local solutions, national strengths In a Nutshell: In 2004, as part...
November 4, 2012
