TED Video

• Received a good education and wanted to give something back
• Visited a village in 1965 and to see how the underprivileged people live-->changed his life
• Wanted to dig wells for five years in a village
• Exposed to knowledge and skills poor people have
• Wanted to start a barefoot college-college for the poor
• Told him don't bring anyone with with a degree
• Had to be a dropout, ect.
• Had to provide a service
• Started the Barefoot Professional College
• Follows lifestyle of Ghandi at college
• No one gets more than $100 a month
• Come to the college with any idea, "teacher is the learner, the learners are the teachers"
• 1986-Built college
• Solar electrified. Solar powered
• Installed by a engineer
• Food is solar cooked
• Cooker made by women
• Collect rain water in case of drought
• Night school for kids
• Solar lit schools
• Participate in a democratic election to elect a prime minister