The Rainbow children are given three meals a day. Participants in the Barefoot Teachers Training Programme also eat here. All this happens on an otherwise busy day at school, with classes, admissions and interviews going on. You'd think this was the most natural thing to happen in school. We need only our feet to walk.
Shoes are a luxury.
Very apt, and this phrase sums up how very little is required to achieve such a great deal. This is a huge potential that needed to be tapped for creating literate communities. Attending Training Programmes for three months, young educated women make a valuable contribution. Teachers are taught to teach with raw materials like leaves or stones. Two thousand teachers have been trained here and Sister Cyril would like to see a full-fledged Barefoot Teachers Training Centre here.