On the evening of February 29th, Roy (Alistair Wicks) of New
Creation passed away in his UK home in the presence of his daughter and son,
due to kidney failure. He was 92 years old.
In 1989, Roy, a retired British police sergeant and school
welfare officer, visited Auroville after the demise of his wife and was
approached by André Tardeil, who at the time was setting up extended training
at New Creation for village youth and needed someone to coordinate the
educational efforts there. Half a year later Roy returned and started funding
and establishing New Creation Bilingual School, which is now the well running
CBSE-accredited Aikiyam School.
Throughout the years, Roy’s house in New Creation became an
organised and educative boarding for pupils of the school who had no relatives
to take care of them. ‘Roy’s Boarding’ has been a caring home from where many
youngsters from the village have been guided into the world with love, an
institution which survives today as ‘Ma...
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