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Chapter 4 deals with one of the two major tasks that Barefoot College undertakes - service delivery. In order to address the concerns of the poor and the deprived, the College undertakes various innovative experiments to provide them with the services. In addition to undertaking thorough discussion on the innovative experiments being undertaken, the chapter then moves on to discuss how the most excluded have benefited from those experiments. The detailed narrations and case studies presented offer a rich insight into the transformation. This chapter also understands how the philosophical ideology of Gandhi has helped the College to exist and create a unique composition which is highly respected by various stakeholders.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win
—Mahatma Gandhi
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Kummitha, R.K.R. (2017). Barefoot Approach and Its Practice. In: Social Entrepreneurship and Social Inclusion. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1615-8_4
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