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Barefoot College began its Community Radio Station in 2008 and covers daily for 6 hours a radius of 30km including 30 villages, 21 primary schools, 16 middle schools, and 9 secondary schools.

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Barefoot communicators deliver 150 performances (puppet shows, street plays and musicals) annually to rural night schools and crèches.

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Barefoot founding team watching the the Dalai Lama use a Barefoot puppet.

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Barefoot College has been using the traditional media of Puppetry since 1984 to address topics such as water and environment and has reached out more than 75,000 children.

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Ramniwas and Barefoot communication team preparing for a puppet show to rural day school children.

Livelihood – Communication

The Barefoot Communication section started in 1981, with a team of traditional and non-traditional musicians and puppeteers who are collectively known as the ‘Barefoot communicators’.

They began with using live and interactive music, puppet shows and street plays, as these were more familiar to rural communities than television, radio or newspaper.

Barefoot communicators performed and initiated discussions on socio-economic messages and powerful themes such as drinking water, environment, transparency, minimum wages, employment, dalit violence, untouchability, casteism, money lending, death feast, communal harmony, atrocities towards women, women empowerment and child rights. As the performances were a form of popular educational entertainment their viewer consisted of children as well as adults.

Subsequently, the communication section was expanded to include the audio-visual, screen printing and community radio sections. Today, the communication team meets all audio and visual needs, of the College and its educational and developmental initiatives, by producing street plays, music, puppet shows, films, presentations, radio broadcasts, pamphlets, posters, banners, booklets, manuals, t-shirt graphics or any other art work.