On August 19, 2024, AVI USA received an urgent message from the Auroville Dog Shelter, our Auroville partner. After a week of tracking down a few dogs that appeared unwell, it appeared that Auroville and surrounding villages were at risk of a rabies outbreak.
In 2024-2025, students from a few of Auroville’s Outreach Schools, Aikiyam, Isai Ambalam and Udavi, go on a school trip to Nainital base, Van Nivas, as the Himalayan Center of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram is called. This year, a generous sponsor has donated $2250 in Matching Funds towards a fundraiser for the trip. Join us in making … Read more
An account of Hassan’s first visit to LEC, Life Education Center in Auroville, a project he has been supporting from the distance since 2020.
Dr. Suryamayi Clarence-Smith, well known and loved Aurovilian writer, academic and instructor of the mindfulness practice Awareness through the Body, has new work offerings this Fall.
2024 marks Auroville International USA’s 50th anniversary as a nonprofit organization. The gathering of friends working and dreaming of an Auroville of limitless possibilities received their official nonprofit designation from the state of California on April 5, 1974. The single moving force behind AVI USA was June Maher, a radiant being inspired by the Mother’s … Read more
Knowing that we have been actively seeking funds to help sustain our menstrual health education programmes with adolescent girls, Binah reached out to me back in March 2023, floating an idea to prepare a project for the Rotary Club. She had established a contact with the Denver Mile High Rotary Club who had shown an … Read more
The Pulaha Fellowship provides young individuals, who share this wish, the opportunity to regenerate forests, restore watersheds, and live in a community committed to transforming forests to their indigenous fullness. Jean Luc Pulaha was a free spirit and lover of nature. There was nothing he enjoyed more than walking in forests, climbing mountains, or being … Read more
We are writing to you from WasteLess. We are Chandrah and Ribhu, siblings who grew up together in the barren Auroville of the 80s and 90s. With the freedom of exploration and playing in the red soil canyons, which turned into wild streams every monsoon. We saw how new seedlings sprouted and grew, attracting life … Read more
John Mandeen, came to Pondicherry from California, in October 1968 as a young man of 24 and was accepted by the Mother as an Ashramite. He helped set up the first screen printing workshop in the Ashram Press. All birthday cards with the Mother’s symbol in those days were screen printed there besides book covers.
