Question: please answer the following question based on the text below. 250 words in what ways do you think Barefoot College's mission and goals are characteristic
A College Built by and for the Poor Sanjit "Bunker" Roy came from a wealthy Indian family, but in his 20 s he decided to try living on $1 a day. Based on that experience, in 1972 he created Barefoot College, which he calls "the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner the teacher." Barefoot College now operates in 1,300 villages across 93 of the world's least-developed countries in Asia, Africa, the Pacific Islands, and South America. Its mission is to improve rural lives and communities through learning-by-doing training programs in health care, women's empowerment, solar energy, water, and land development that are designed and built by and for the poor. Barefoot College is based on the guiding principles of service and sustainability espoused by Mahatma Gandhi, along with a commitment to equality, shared decision making, and selfreliance. Its projects have brought artificial light to more than half a million people and provided clean water and solar energy for cooking and heating to thousands of communities. Its Enriche program is dedicated to using simple methods to empower rural women, even if illiterate, with the scientific and engineering skills they need to undertake environmental stewardship, manage solar energy, and protect women's reproductive health. Its four building blocks are "enhance, enable, engage, establish." Each woman in the program is trained to teach others. For example, those trained in the sixmonth solar energy program in Tilonia, India, a campus powered by an off-grid solar system, come from around the world. They receive fellowship grants from the Indian government while enrolled and leave with a stipend for starting their own business. Roy has been honored by Time magazine for his "grassroots social entrepreneurship" and was a past recipient of Business Standard's Social Entrepreneur of the Year award. Roy's ambitious plans for Barefoot College's future are to help the world meet its sustainability goals by 2030 . Barefoot is offering solutions for 14 of the 17 sustainability goals outlined by the United Nations. These are ambitious targets, but Roy and the Barefoot approach have a proven track record of making the world a better place
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