Built at $1.50/sq.ft by 12 barefoot architects in 3 years

Telephone Exchange connected with Optical Fibre

Only Rural Speed Post Service giving over Rs 100,000 worth of business

every month

1975-night schools with kerosene lamps

2012-150 night schools with solar lanterns

225 Night Schools in 6 States attended by 7,000 children out of which

5,500 are girls-all lit by solar lanterns

children parliament

Barefoot Community Radio

Iron workshop

Illiterate women fabricate solar cookers and water heaters

Location of Dam

The 300 hectare Korseena Hill in the Aravalli Hill Range

provided an ideal location.

This is the region’s only natural rainwater catchment area;

high enough so water will not be adulterated by the ground

salinity.

Sambhar Salt

Lake

Location of

dam

In the Mughal time, a dam had been built in the same location

out of lime and stone, local materials.

The dam is estimated to be over 300 years old and would

have been the only freshwater source in the area.

Dam

13 meters

20 meters 13 meters

12 meters

View January 11th, 2009

Construction of Dam

2 Months Total Employment: 675

View February 11th, 2009

3 Months Total Employment: 1,063

View March 16th, 2009

5 Months Total Employment: 1,469

View May 12th, 2009

7 Months Total Employment: 1,877

View July 9th, 2009

11 Months Total Employment: 2,284

View November 4th, 2009

12 Months Total Employment: 2,514

View December 16th, 2009

13 Months Total Employment: 2,630

View January 11th, 2009

View January 19th, 2009

13 Months Total Employment: 2,630

14 Months Total Employment: 2,726 Total Cost: 1,830,255 / £ 25,777

View February 19th, 2009

Water Level: 7 ft. Liters: 5.83 million Liters

View July 3rd, 2009

View July 19th, 2009

Water Level: 13 ft. Liters: 10.84 million Liters

Water Level: 19 ft. Liters: 16.84 million Liters

View July 23rd, 2009

By July 24th, 2010, the water level percolated 2 feet (1.67 million

Liters), resulting in a reservoir level of 17 feet ( 14.15 million Liters).

Duration of

construction: 14

months

Days of labour

generated: 2,899

Days of skilled labour

generated: 297

Impact of Dam

Directly benefits: 20 villages, 13,874 people and

79,850 livestock.

Indirectly benefits: over 100,000 people and 200,000

livestock.

Additionally, 106 hand pumps, 36 open wells and 31

ponds were recharged in the 20 villages.

RECHARGED:

106 HAND PUMPS

36 OPEN WELLS

31 PONDS

Construction Material

22%

Meeting & Training

0%

Labour Welfare & Medicine

5% Labour

Payment 57%

Documentation 0%

Administrative Expenses

2% Monitoring & Supervision

14% £: 111 : 7,849

£: 3,500 : 248,532 £: 5,631

INR: 399,807

£: 1,217 : 86,428

£: 128 : 9,098

£: 494 : 35,098

£: 14,696

INR:

1,043,448

Total Expenditure in British Pounds (£) & Indian Rupees ( )

Total Expenditure

£: 25,777

:1,830,260

The first barefoot solar engineer of India: fully solar electrified the campus between 1986 and 2000

A Priest turned solar engineer became master trainer

Total Generation:287 Kws/day: 6 Battery Banks:Storage: 460 Kws

50 Kws: 5 separate solar power plants: only fully solar electrified

campus in India

Kamla- First Barefoot Woman Solar Engineer

of India-1996

76 Women solar Engineers trained from 16 States of India

First 2 Tibetan women solar engineers who have solar electrified

30 hermit huts in Dharamsala

Since 1990 over 50 villages solar electrified by 40 barefoot engineers

in Ladakh Kashmir

Desert border District (Barmer) of Rajasthan: 20 villages: 400 houses

150 women artesans 30 kms from Pakistan border

By managing to work at night the Barefoot College has managed to

provide several hundred women income from sale of handicrafts

About $ 100,000 annual sales benefitting women in the desert

Between 2004 and 2012 the barefoot approach has reached almost all the 30 Least

Developed Countries in the Continent of Africa

The very poor in Africa use these wick lamps called by many names in different

countries

Tadoba(Uganda): Kibatari(Tanzania): Mesreya(Sudan): Fanos(Djibouti):

Percolo(Chad): Fetila (Niger)

For 5 litres of kerosene women sometimes have

to walk for 10 kms in Africa

Each Family spends $ 3-5 on kerosene per month

What is the barefoot approach in Africa?

Call a meeting of the whole village to decide: 1. How much each

family is prepared to pay in writing for the use of the solar unit

Each house will get one fixed solar light(11 watt) in

the house, one LED Light, one solar lantern and one

plug to charge mobiles costing $ 350 each

2. Form a Village level Committee to Collect the monthly contribution

for repair and maintenance and paying the women engineer

Select the illiterate rural grandmother to be sent to india for 6 months to be

trained as a solar engineer

The best solar engineers all over the continent of Africa have been the illiterate

rural grandmothers.

Rural Electronic Workshop-Sierra Leone

Pacific 3 slide + map

20 Grandmothers from 7 Pacific Island Countries

Total Jobs created: 40,000

Geographical Impact: 49 countries

Impact: Direct and Indirect: Approximately 3 million people