Our last and most extensive field trip for socio-economics was to the village of Tilonia in rural Rajasthan. Staying at Barefoot College, the revolutionary NGO founded by Bunker Roy, we visited the organization’s night school, various workshops, both private and public schools, and even watched a puppet show. We spoke to people who told us the story of how SWRC (the Social Work Research Centre behind Barefoot College) changed their lives, and then saw it happen before our eyes as we sat in on the village’s monthly meeting with the local government. I can’t believe how lucky we’ve been on all these field trips, in being able to escape the city life and experience things we would never be able to do on our own.
Namaste,
Meridel