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Skills training

Youth Center clarifies

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.

Nothing can stop coffee

Coffee Marc

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

Creating livelihood opportunities for village youth

Lavkamad

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?

Apprenticeships for youth

From left: Suryamayi, Aurevan and Kavitha

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

Bamboo Centre intensive course

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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.

Heeding the Call: Sustainability for South India and Beyond

Women receiving training at an Auroville hammock making unit in Kottakarai

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.

The Auroville Ambulance: Service in Action

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