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Business Standard Corporate Social Responsibility Awards 2016
For Sanjit ‘Bunker’ Roy, who turns 72 this August, a statement by the Father of the Nation — “live simply so that others may simply live” — has gone beyond a vision statement for his social enterprise, Barefoot College, a place that skills rural women and communities to be self-reliant and sustainable. Over the past four decades, Roy has lived the dream that Mahatma Gandhi had, of creating self-sustaining village communities — not only in India, but in 77 other countries — across 1,300 villages.
For Sanjit ‘Bunker’ Roy, who turns 72 this August, a statement by the Father of the Nation — “live simply so that others may simply live” — has gone beyond a vision statement for his social enterprise, Barefoot College, a place that skills rural women and communities to be self-reliant and sustainable. Over the past four decades, Roy has lived the dream that Mahatma Gandhi had, of creating self-sustaining village communities — not only in India, but in 77 other countries — across 1,300 villages.
Following a chance visit to a
