Barefoot College

BAREFOOT COLLEGE

With a geographic focus on the Least Developed Countries, they train women worldwide as solar engineers, entrepreneurs and educators, who then return to their villages to bring light and learning to their community.

2,200

Rural women Trained as solar engineers

18,047

Households With solar home lighting systems Installed

93

Countries With barefoot solar programs

THE BAREFOOT MISSION

There’s nothing as powerful as an educated and well-equipped band of women forging a future for themselves, their family and their village.
Barefoot College equips impoverished and rural women with equipment and training, enabling them to become Solar Engineers and carve a better tomorrow for themselves.
By providing women with the means to earn an income and grow a business, even without literacy or formal education, Barefoot College has seen dramatic change and lives changed in the poorest corners of the globe.

THE IMPACT

When you choose ‘Barefoot College’ at the checkout, you help to empower a solar mama!
By putting women in the worlds poorest countries through training that helps them to become solar engineers, they can earn an income, grow a business and shift the dialogue around gender equality in their communities.

“Women and girls who gain the opportunity to receive skills and efficacy-building tend to be healthier, are better able to compete in the labor market, have fewer children, earn higher incomes, are more prepared, independent, resilient and able to make a better world for themselves and those around them.”

- Barefoot College