Document HRFF: Bring the Sun Home

Bring the Sun Home (2013, Italy)
Dir. Giovanni Pellegrini, Chiara Andrich

The Barefoot College in India has been providing basic services and solutions to problems in rural communities for more than 40 years, with the objective of making them self-sufficient and sustainable. Bring the Sun Home follows two personal stories: Maura and Rosa, two illiterate women from a village with no electricity in the mountains in El Salvador who are recruited to join the college to become solar panel engineers. At the same time in southern Peru, Jenny and Paula, having just returned from India are leading teams that are installing the panels throughout their community. The Barefoot College, founded on the principles of Ghandi, is a place that the impossible can become possible. Inviting women from around the world to take part in courses that imbue them with skills that make them leaders in their communities. This international project has proven incredibly effective and empowering to communities the world over.