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"Where is it written that because you can not read and write can not be an engineer, architect or dentist? These are just myths that we have in mind. And at the Barefoot College smashed them. " He says with her smile bright, but Bunker Roy not joking when, in one of the busiest conference Genoa Science Festival, which closes its this weekend and you can see stream WiredTv , explains what it means to demystify the technology. That's what I try to do since 1972, when Tilonia in the Indian state of Rajasthan, founded the Barefoot College , where the illiterate rural villages in India learn to build photovoltaic systems.

But illiteracy is not seriously hampering the development?
"Not at all. Tilonia At the center we report the knowledge, techniques, knowledge gained in rural communities over the centuries, often have simple solutions and still applicable today, as in stormwater management. We're doing it in a extensive network of schools, not just in India. " But

assemble and maintain PV systems in operation is another thing ...
"The Barefoot College educate virtually all women, even now we are focusing on all grandmothers. The training lasts six months to use sign language to communicate and hands-on approach. Of course when they arrive they are afraid, do not know what a drag, a printed circuit, a diode, but in six months are able to identify all these parts and install and repair solar thermal systems. The advantage over a recent graduate, who quit five years the whole theory of education, is that they learn things making them. "

But because their grandmothers?
" Because they have no desire to leave the village to finish maybe in a slum in Mumbai, as do men. Here's why you do not receive a certificate at the end of the course: if we did, those who receive it would seek work in cities because have a piece of paper in his hand. Remain living in the villages is not a humiliation, we have reversed the trend, and today thousands of people decide to stay because we gave them a job, self-esteem and respect for others. Technical knowledge is important for self-sufficiency of people, but school education can change society. Literacy is important. Since we brought electricity to the villages, started night school for children who must work during the day with families in the camps. But the method of Barefoot College, which focuses on women, has revolutionized the relationship between the sexes: women who are returning from a course are more confident.
And when the electricity in a village, the birth rate drops, so you can do more things at night instead of conceiving children burst.

And the information age has arrived in Tilonia?
"Sure , our 30 computers are powered even those, like all of the Barefoot College, with solar energy. The PCs are essential for the efficient management and use of data, and illiterate women learn to work as do the solar panels. So when they return to their villages, in Asia and Africa, are ready to revolutionize the lives of thousands of families. "

Source: Daily Wired