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Issue No: 307, February 2015

A volunteer’s experience

My experience of Auroville started in August 2013, as an intern at the Auroville Earth Institute. For six months, I had the chance to lead a research project on a promising new technology for construction, Poured Earth Concrete. I found it exciting to move towards highly ecological products and techniques. From another perspective, Auroville has provided me with a chance to explore myself, and I realized that I wanted to get a deeper and longer experience of that. I came back a few months later for a one-year volunteering experience, which happened to be in the field of renewable energy with Auroville Consulting. There I was given the responsibility of making a study of solar photovoltaïc systems in Auroville, which should be a helpful tool to take decisions on the electrical situation in the Green Belt. Regarding my first volunteering experience, having the trust of my mentors allowed me to concretize quickly any decision I found relevant for the research. This freedom...
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Issue No. 307, February 2015

  • Discovering the oneness of the Matrimandir Garden
  • Communicating for social change
  • Dancing between structure and openness
  • Community reflections on the volunteer experience
  • A volunteer’s experience
  • Volunteering at Eco-Femme
  • La Maison des Jeunes
  • Pics from the Past
  • Art Cart: connection through creativity
  • Turning 10, Tsunamika takes on a new cause
  • Letters
  • Visiting the Mahatma Gandhi Home for the Aged
  • Are volunteers milk cows?
  • The volunteers’ financial contribution

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