Clarification “Employees of Auroville”

Dear Auroville Today,

This is regarding the issue of the articles in Auroville Today # 364, focusing on the employees of Auroville. While I am grateful for the issue dedicated to our employees, in this article, however, no mention is made of SEWA, who did an employee survey in 2000, along with Auroville’s Social Research Centre and Pondicherry University, and most importantly, the funding agency, the Dutch Stichting de Zaaier. Without their support we could not even have thought about doing such an exhaustive survey in Auroville.

And this fact was made very clear when the attempt to do the same survey by us in 2007-08 had to be shelved (with a very heavy heart!) after a full year of working on it, because we had been given to understand that there were simply no funds available in Auroville for such an undertaking!

Warm regards,

Klara