From ESWStanford
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Ashoka Fellow Anil Chitrakar
From http://www.ashoka.org/node/2745
See his interview at the National University of Singapore http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00i5j8FT1eo
Anil's idea started simply enough when he began engaging children as he worked on solar energy and other appropriate technology demonstrations in their villages. Not only were they fascinated, but the work proved sustainable in the villages. He is pursuing multiple, mutually reinforcing objectives:
- (1) To give these young people, especially those from the 91 percent of Nepal that is rural, an engaging initial exposure to the scientific world view of their environment -- sanitation, appropriate agricultural and energy technologies, and -- especially -- why environmental conservation is essential for their and their community's failure.
- (2) To do so through this intense, hands-on experimental approach that will serve as a dramatic alternative to rote/repetition schooling, one that he hopes increasingly to encourage the schools to take up.
- (3) To involve high school-leavers and college students in this grassroots work, thus both (a) creating the large work force of trainers the project needs and also (b) allowing him to spread both his specific appropriate technology/ environmental message and a sense of commitment to the country's rural poor. This sense of commitment is best arrived at through working together
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Sam Goldman and Ned Tozun, co-founders of D.Light
http://www.socialedge.org/features/peace-corps-entrepreneurs/archive/2007/06/19/sam-goldman
