Author: barefoot

Bold taste. Strong impact. With these simple outcomes, B. Barefoot Coffee is creating enterprise opportunities for the rural poor. While still in a prototype phase, coffee production and sales are underway. Coffee grown in Andhra...

The power of purposeful business catches on Being a great business is not just about making money any more. Consumers around the world have demanded more. Stand for something. Make more than money. Make a...

What’s the last thing you’ll do this year? Will it make a difference for 2018? For others? Or more importantly, will it change the world? It can. You can #FlipTheSwitch as the last thing you...

For all the talk of progress, women remain the single-largest untapped economic driver in the global economy. Yes, untapped. Significant studies have found that trends toward gender equality have slowed and even reversed in recent...

LONDON, 8th March 2017 – Hogan Lovells is pleased to announce the completion of the first phase of its partnership with The Barefoot College, jointly celebrated with International Women’s Day. Since announcing the partnership, the...

Take a step back from Zanzibar’s white sand beaches and big hotels and you’re in a very different world. One where the island’s dusty, inland villages largely go dark once the sun sets. This is...

Lucie Argelies first came to Tilonia during a train journey through India designed to train and inspire a generation of social entrepreneurs. The native of France felt in some ways that she was coming home...

We are known best for training women from all over the world to become solar engineers for their villages. We train them despite language barriers and limited literacy. These women are empowered to become entrepreneurs,...

As part of its global initiative to support and empower women and girls, Hogan Lovells, one of the world’s largest law firms, has agreed to partner with The Barefoot College. Since its inception, the long-term...

Temple Flower, a Los Angeles-based lifestyle brand clothier for women, has chosen Barefoot College as its Corporate Social Responsibility partner. A portion of every garment sold goes to funding another Barefoot Solar Engineer. The connection...