Each day at PTDC starts with a brief concentration, offering the work
Mother gave broad and clear directives that form the basis
of Auroville’s socio-economic organization and vision: a communal economy with
no private property and no exchange of money between community members, each of
whom would contribute to the collective in one of three ways – work, kind, or
money – and whose basic needs, would, in turn, be provided for by the
community.
Pour Tous, founded in 1974, was the first communal Auroville
institution to act as an anchor for that envisaged ideal economy. The
community’s first collective provisioning operation, it began by providing a
basket of basic needs in kind to all Aurovilians at no cost. However, with the
emergence of the maintenance system in 1983, Pour Tous decisively shifted from
a communally-funded to an individualized and monetized model of food
distribution. At first, each individual or family was given an account in which
to deposit funds, an...
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I spent last February cooking in the PTDC kitchen, and it was the highlight of m'y Auroville experience. I loved working there in a small, highly motivated team. ANd what a joy to see people line up to get a healthy, home cooked lunch, it was instant satisfaction! Thank you, Anandi and all the others... love from Anna