In Class Video

• He went to an elite, snobby, school in India
• He was supposed to be a doctor
• The entire world was laid out for him
• Visited a village and it changed his life
• saw starvation
• death
• suffering
• This made him want to live and work in a village
• He wanted to give something back because of the education he had achieved
• Digging wells for 5 years
• He learned things that only poor people know
• He wanted to start a college only for the poor
• No one with degrees of qualifications are allowed to teach at the school
• Show that you have a skill/service that you can offer to the community
• "Barefoot College"
• "Whatever idea you have, come and try it.  Doesn't matter if you fail"
• Do not need a paper to show that you are qualified to help your community
• 1986 - first barefoot college
• food is solar cooked at the barefoot college that women created
• all roofs are connected and all rain drains into a vat where all water is saved, none goes to waste