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Fundraising campaigns

The Kailash Story: from foundation to summit

Collective cooking

It all started in September 1998. Jean-François and I were at home when a group of teenagers, familiar faces from the Auroville schools, walked in with a quiet determination.

Auroville Village Action’s response to the second wave

Masks making

In April and May 2021, India witnessed a surge in COVID-19 infections, with the country seeing over 3,50,000 fresh cases of COVID-19 daily, one of the highest one-day tallies anywhere in the world and the number of deaths was also increasing every day.

Art for Land

Optical Illusion by Shinso

The sixth annual edition of the Art for Land exhibition opened on 31st January at the Unity Pavilion. The entire month of 'art with heart' included concerts, performances, talks and other events such as the Generosity Fair.

COVID and the local villages: AVAG’S response

Distribution queues in a village

The COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown have brought large scale unemployment, poverty and hunger to the rural villages and urban slums of India.

Reversing the trend – land fundraising for Auroville

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“The procurement of land for Auroville is the most urgent priority in order to ensure the future of the project in its original spirit,” says Sauro Mezzetti, member of the Working Committee and former overall coordinator of L’Avenir d’Auroville.

Art for Land

The third edition of ‘Art for Land’, in which artists donate work to raise money to acquire land for Auroville, was inaugurated on 1st January at the Unity Pavilion.

Acres For Auroville – Greenacres – Art for Land inaugurations

Inge van Alphen addressing the audience. The Mother's message says: The lands for Auroville are to be bought and can be bought. The money is needed

August 15th – Sri Aurobindo’s birthday – was the occasion for the inauguration of new phases in Auroville’s three land fundraising campaigns: Phase 3 of the Acres for Auroville land campaign; the second year of the Green Acres campaign, and the second phase of the Art for Land action.

“Landing Auroville – the time is now”

Ceramic artists also donated their works to the art auction

On February 7th, the ‘Landing Auroville Celebration’ held at the Unity Pavillion was an encouraging success. Organised by the joint land fundraising teams of Acres for Auroville, GreenAcres and LFAU, the event’s central message was the sacredness of the land, and the need for an intense collective effort to acquire land in Auroville’s Master Plan area now.

Two new land campaigns

The recent land purchase nearby the Matrimandir

The Acres for Auroville Phase Two and GreenAcres campaigns were launched on August 15th.