Hygiene

When Eco Femme founders Kathy and Jessamijn started the initiative ten years ago, they couldn’t imagine that their dreams would find such fertile ground.

Dear friends of Auroville Today, With regard to your ‘Caring for the Sick and Elderly’ article in AVToday # 363, I would like to make two observations:

The Solar Kitchen opened in December 1997 and since then has been operating uninterruptedly under different managers. The first were Jaya and Shyama, who were joined shortly after by Andrea.

In 1969, the Mother allocated Rs. 5,000 to start a dispensary in a thatched hut in Douceur, mainly to serve the villagers from nearby Kuilapalayam.

Auroville Health Services (AVHS), a team of eight members, is a non-profit service in the area of public health and health care for seniors.