The Barli Development Institute for Rural Women in Indore is a Baháʼí inspired, though independent residential vocational education school providing programs for women in the vicinity of the city of Indore, India, in the state of Madhya Pradesh as well as a base for outreach/non-residential training centers.
The institute was founded in 1985 and was under the suggestion and direction of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baháʼís of India.
[3] Through June 1996, a total of 769 rural tribal women have been trained at the institute with a variety of measures of successful impact on the lives of graduates including:[5] In contrast, in 1994, only 92 of every 1000 tribal girls were literate; only 3 in every 1000 made it as far as middle school; and just 1 in every 1000 actually completed her secondary schooling.
[1] The institute offers a variety of classes arranged around six-month and one year residential programs at its 6-acre (24,000 m2) facilities and three months non-residential at the satellite outreach centers.
[3] Many former graduates work approximately 100 days each year on field visits to conduct awareness raising programmes, recruit women for courses, do surveys and research, and to assist the former trainees to organize women's committees.