Employees, children and Aurovilians at Auroville Sangamam, 2018Across more than one issue, Auroville Today aims to highlight our employees and their valuable contributions to Auroville’s daily functioning. From accountants to gardeners, village social workers to office workers, we foreground their work, their lives, and their thoughts on Auroville and their engagement with the place.
They work in our gardens, our homes, our services and units, in our schools and health centres, at the Town Hall, at Matrimandir. Yet while, in many ways, they are the engine house of Auroville, the people who keep it running, they are also often “invisible”. They do not feature in the community’s brochures, most visiting journalists and researchers do not write about them, they are not consulted when important decisions are taken about the community’s future, and most Aurovilians know so little about them: about their lives, their hopes, their challenges. We don’t even know how many there are.
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