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Founder Director Bunker Roy
Laureate
THE BAREFOOT COLLEGE
community based organisation
India
Sustainable Land Management, General interest in environmental issues, Sustainable Energy
The Nuclear-Free Future Award, 2001
Indira Gandhi Paryavaran Puraskar (Indira Gandhi Environment Award), 2002
The Ashden Awards, 2003
The St Andrews Prize for the Environment, 2003
Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, 2004
Blue Planet Prize, 2011
Training illiterate rural women-called Solar Mamas- from non electrified villages all over the world to be confident and competent solar engineers in 6 months in the Barefoot College in India. They go back and solar electrify their own villages without any help from "outside".Today over 750 Solar Mamas have been trained from 78 of the Least Developed Countries benefiting nearly 500,000 people all south of the Equator