22 Quotes by Bunker Roy

Jeff Sachs has the Millennium Villages. He spends $2.5 million in one village. It's an absolutely ridiculous model, because I've said that if you gave me $2.5 million, I can train 100 grandmothers, solar electrify 100 villages - 10,000 houses - and save you 100,000 litres of kerosene.

We went to Ladakh ... and we asked this woman, 'What was the benefit you had from solar electricity?' And she thought for a minute and said, 'It's the first time I can see my husband's face in winter.'

The prime minister is 12 years old. She looks after 20 goats in the morning, but she's prime minister in the evening.

What's the best way of communicating in the world today? Television? No. Telegraph? No. Telephone? No. Tell a woman.

I had a very elitist, snobbish, expensive education in India, and that almost destroyed me.

Our job is to show how it is possible to take an illiterate woman and make her into an engineer in six months and show that she can solar-electrify a village

Listen to the people on the ground. They have all the solutions in the world.

[The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher.

Strengthen the rural areas and you will find less people migrating to urban areas. You give them opportunity, self respect & self confidence, they will never go to an urban slum.