The David Nagel Memorial Scholarship
AT THE AUROVILLE BOTANICAL GARDENS
AVI USA has teamed up with the Auroville Botanical Gardens, to create a scholarship fund in David Nagel’s memory. David was an early Aurovilian who stewarded Auroville’s young forests and contributed the reafforestation of the Tropical Dry Evergreen Forest. With the guidance Paul Blanchflower. director of the Auroville Botanical Gardens, the scholarship fund will provide living expenses for a year for up to five Auroville youths with a demonstrated interest and commitment to an area of botany, forestry or ecology.
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Paul Blanchflower talks about the David Nagel Scholarship Program
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The David Nagel Scholarship Fund aims to provide a full living stipend for Auroville youths, to allow them a full immersion in their research area at the Botanical Gardens. It is designed to support a year-long study course, where the recipients of the scholarship will spend 40 hours a week working at the Botanical Garden, writing monthly reports about their studies, developing or deepening skills and proficiencies, bringing their newly developed skills in the service of Auroville at the completion of the program.
With generous support from HiDesign, all donations up to approximately $7333 will be matched or doubled. Help us reach our goal of ~$14,500 and provide a full year scholarship and a travel research fund for four Auroville youths.
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With generous support from HiDesign, all donations up to approximately $7333 will be matched or doubled. Help us reach our goal of ~$14,500 and provide a full year scholarship and a travel research fund for four Auroville youths.
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David Nagel
An Early Steward of Auroville’s Forests
David Nagel settled in Auroville in 1978, and dedicated himself to Auroville’s young forests. His dedication and love of the forests were well known and he strived to impart his love of nature to all those he knew. He was a sensitive and creative soul, with strong work ethic. He experienced periods of personal turbulence, and his love of Auroville’s forests and work with trees, planting, transplanting and caring for hundreds or thousands of young trees that helped him find a deeper meaning and purpose in life.
With the generous support and encouragement of the Nagel family, the David Nagel Scholarship Fund aims to support Auroville youth in navigating their early adulthood, by creating a nurturing work and study environment where elements of David’s forest work can live on in the hands of a new generation of Auroville youth.