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Issue No: 307, February 2015

Are volunteers milk cows?

Sharing my time between two different works, I spend four days a week at TDC­L’avenir as a waste manager for Bommayapalayam in the scheme of the Auroville bioregional development plan, and I go farming one day a week in Auro-orchard. This is a wonderful opportunity for me to be able to split my time between my hands and my brain. And I would  like to thank Auroville for this because my previous job did not allow me to work that way. Today I feel more relaxed, more peaceful. Is it the integral yoga of Mother and Sri Aurobindo? I guess so! Moreover, if we imagine a world where everyone would have education, how are we going to produce food, to build houses ? Today, the answer came to me clearly. We will have to split our time between the basic needs of the community and more intellectual work. However, I feel a bit sad to see that so few Aurovilians invest their energy in farming and other hand labour. For instance, there are just twenty farmers in Auroville while ...
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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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