Skills training

The Auroville Youth Center has sent out a mass bulletin to all residents stating that the Youth Center is a place of learning, exploration and personal growth for youth of all kinds and ages and that it has recently started to work closely with the community, creating various workshops such as welding, woodwork, kombucha making, mushroom cultivation; with more to come.

Marc’s Coffee responds to the challenges of a pandemic.

The vocational training school, the Auroville Institute of Applied Technology, has now been running for over 15 years. What does it do? How successful has it been and what challenges is it facing today?

Aurevan, Suryamayi and Kavitha are part of an enthusiastic team working on developing apprenticeship and internship programmes for Auroville youth.

The Bamboo Center organised a three-week intensive hands-on training course for bamboo crafters. Areas of training in this residential programme included jewelry, furniture making and construction.

Tamil Nadu today is ranked among India’s most ‘developed’ states. Increasingly urbanised, it has a growing service sector in the cities, and is a proud leader in healthcare and information technology.

Two years ago, the Auroville Ambulance was purchased with funds from the cyclone relief fund. Today, the ambulance steadily continues to serve the community.