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New Hope For The Roads | Interview with Michael Boenke

The Solar Water Pump initiative began in 2021 with the aspiration to improve the water situation for as many Auroville farms as possible by installing solar pumps according to the individual needs of each farm. The obvious benefits were ecological: to be able to pump water by means of solar power instead of having to … Read more

To celebrate the launch of Auroville Today’s new website, we are collaborating to bring you the latest Auroville news for the next few months. AVI USA readers will have first access to the unlocked Auroville Today headline articles through the summer through our collaboration with Auroville’s premiere news outlet!

UTSAV -A Mixed Use Experimental Building Complex | Interview with Mona, lead architect.

With Debashish Banerjee. A course at the California Institute for Integral Studies

The  Volunteer Retention and Recruitment Workshop opened the discussion about developing an initiative by attracting enthusiastic, and potentially longterm volunteers. Finding and keeping volunteers within a growing project brings new ideas and energy. It gives a sense of change and progress, easing the workload on 

Several months ago, AVI USA Director of Development, Binah Thillairajah, reached out to a sister nonprofit, IDRF, the India Development and Relief Fund, to jumpstart an AVI USA- IDRF collaboration in support of our Auroville partners. Learn about our first collaboration involving the support of Udavi School, the Ashram School Trip and Deepam School for … Read more

This March, Amir, a certified Awareness Through the Body trainer, led workshops at the Delhi and Madhuban Sri Aurobindo Ashrams. AVI USA board member Julian Lines was there to bring us the story.

Around a year ago Doug Grimes called me to discuss creating a bequest to support AVI USA’s work. He had been studying and teaching yoga since the 1970s. He had recently discovered the writings of Mother and Sri Aurobindo through the LA center where he participated in Satsang and regularly volunteered. 

On Monday, February 10th, AVI USA held a Donor Development Training in Auroville. The training was designed for AVI USA’s partners & projects leaders in Auroville, to discuss, create and collaborate in developing strategies for connecting with new donors. The meeting, hosted at SAIIER hall was hours long, filled with curiosity, enthusiasm and creative ideas. Almost … Read more