Bunker Roy
Bunker Roy
Sanjit "Bunker" Royis an Indian social activist and educator who founded the Barefoot College. He was selected as one of Time 100's 100 most influential personalities in 2010 for his work in educating illiterate and semi literate rural Indians...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth2 August 1945
CountryIndia
jobs six-months village
Our job is to show how it is possible to take an illiterate woman and make her into an engineer in six months and show that she can solar-electrify a village
people world solutions
Listen to the people on the ground. They have all the solutions in the world.
teacher motivation inspiration
[The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher.
self-confidence opportunity giving
Strengthen the rural areas and you will find less people migrating to urban areas. You give them opportunity, self respect & self confidence, they will never go to an urban slum.