A world-bank-funded project in Andhra Pradesh pioneers livelihood-enabling interventions for the rural poor. Fifteen thousand barefoot professionals have to be trained - barefoot veterinarians, botanists. Livelihood business schools have to be set up, perhaps four or five per district. We need partners from among corporate and management institutions, NGOs, and NRIs to help us take the livelihood programme forward." This unusual discussion on creating and enchanting livelihoods of the poor is taking place on Hill Fort Road, Hyderabad, in the office of the Society for Elimination of Rural Poverty (SERP).