The residents of the Mahatma Gandhi Home for the Aged. Royal is seated third from left (front row).Albert Zwaan joined Auroville in 1997, after working for 20 years as the head of the outpatient department and operation theatre of a hospital in the Netherlands. In 1999, he started working for the Auroville Health Centre in Aspiration as a nurse-administrator. He also took responsibility for the Health Centre's village programme.In 2006, Albert started his most treasured project. Knowing how little is done for some of the old people in India, those who end up living on the streets, emaciated and forgotten, he started the Mahatma Gandhi Home for the Aged in Lawspet, Pondicherry with the help of a Dutch foundation.Albert was very closely involved. He organised doctors from the Auroville Health Centre to provide medical support when needed and sometimes he would personally take an old person into the Home and wash and feed her. Today, the Home houses 19 old women who receive three mea...
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