Barefoot College 

Barefoot College (“BCI” or “Social Welfare Research Centre”) is a global NGO that provides community development solutions to the most impoverished rural populations in the world’s least developed countries by tapping the wisdom, skills and resourcefulness of the poor themselves. BCI focuses on the demystification of technology to sustainably empower impoverished communities by recruiting illiterate or semi-literate, those not formally educated and effectively training them to build and maintain a wide variety of life-changing technologies. Only technologies that can be understood and controlled by rural community have been introduced to improve the quality of life of the poor.
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Participant Profile: Meagan Fallone (Chief Executive Officer)

Meagan is currently steering the establishment of a further 6 Barefoot College Women’s Vocational Training Centers throughout Sub Saharan Africa, Latin America and SE Asia/Pacific. She consults directly to Private Foundations and Social Enterprises  through her consulting company, Step Up Consulting, Ltd. Meagan has created and restructured a series of companies since 2005 in both the for-profit and non- profit sectors. Her company MFC Art Consulting Ltd in 2006 deepened her commitment to Empowering mature women, by mentoring rural women artisans in Africa, Asia and Latin America to gain unprecedented livelihood access in the luxury hotel sector.  She has also participated in the  Geneva Executive Committee Human Rights Watch. 

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