Direct employment creation
• Since 1984 direct employment for 20,000-plus people.
• Between 2001-2009, 2,000-plus artisans (blacksmiths, carpenters, weavers and women making handicrafts) from 50 neighbouring villages earned $100,000 (Rs.51 lakh) as wages.
• Sales revenue (2000-09): $600,000 (Rs.3 crore)
• 289 barefoot solar engineers electrified 12,000 homes in 600 villages in eight states.
Primary & vocational education
• 714 night schools in 673 villages for 235,000 children including 170,000 girls in five states.
• 3,140 barefoot teachers in five states.
• 130 rural children-members of Children’s Parliament.
• Physically challenged trained entrepreneurs include artisans (67), teachers (78), technicians (17) and 650 traditional communicators.
Women’s empowerment
• 3,095 rural women’s groups with 62,500 members in 1,834 villages in eight states.
• 76 women solar engineers, 39 handpump mechanics, 665 traditional midwives, 20 barefoot vets.
Child & maternal health
• Network of 605 traditional midwives; 231 barefoot doctors; 14 barefoot pathology lab technicians; 2,500 tests.
• Reaching basic health services to 170,000 people in 165 villages.
Environmental sustainability
• 599 villages in 14 states generating 550 Kwp solar electricity per day.
• 289 including 76 women barefoot solar engineers trained.
• 274 night schools distributed 4,736 solar lanterns saving thousands of litres of kerosene from being used for lighting.
Drinking water and sanitation
• Nearly 1 million people supplied potable water through rooftop rainwater harvesting, installation of handpumps and piped water supply.
• 1,486 schools constructed by 1,200 barefoot architects collecting 94 million litres of rainwater for 500,000 children in 16 states.
• 100 million litres of rainwater recharging groundwater through 93 open dug wells in 37 villages.
• Trained 1,050 barefoot village hand pump mechanics in 1,000 villages.
• 10,000 BC trained mechanics maintaining 75,000 handpumps in Rajasthan.