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Issue No: 310, May 2015

Village Youth Reach High

Reach for the Stars scholarship students (from left) Savithri and Suchithra, with graduate Vaidegi “I’m the first graduate in my family, and they feel proud of me,” says Vaidegi confidently. As the applicants for the June 2015 scholarship intake mingle in the background at Thamarai community centre in Edaiyanchavady, anxiously waiting for their interviews with the Reach for the Stars team, Vaidegi is happy to be a role model now she’s graduated and working: “We can encourage by our actions,” she says about the example set by the programme’s first graduates. Vaidegi, from Sanjeevinagar village, completed her Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communications last year. She is now working in AuraAuro Design, an electronics company in Auroville, and is determined to climb the career ladder. “Presently I’m concentrating on my work, because I want to grow in that field. I want to do more than what I can do now. I’m in the learning process, so I’m focusing on that.” Sh...
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Issue No. 310, May 2015

  • The Challenges of Farming in Auroville
  • Growing Food, Growing People
  • Farming in Auroville: the tensions of growing and selling
  • Experiments in Hydroponics
  • Growing a Green City
  • "The Flute Must Be Played Through You"
  • What is Really Going on Here
  • My Pumpkin Roof
  • Village Youth Reach High
  • The ADCERRA Dental Team Goes to Gujarat
  • The English of Savitri Volume 1
  • Klaus Groujean (Passing)
  • Johan Defour (Passing)

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