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Our 2020 New Year’s Card For The Land

This year’s New Year’s card 2020 is a hommage to the deep vision behind Auroville, with the inspired artwork of the Matrimandir’s Garden of Power by Auroville artist Emanuele Scanziani, and the painting the Mother named “Heralds of the Supramental World” painted by Promode Kumar on the night of 29 February 1956. View the card, and learn how to receive one.

“Youth that never ages” – 1st Quarterly Update from Acres for Auroville (Year 6)

On this November 24th we commemorate the 83rd anniversary of a great evolutionary victory in the life of Sri Aurobindo, a milestone that paved laid the roots for the establishment of Auroville. In honor of this special date, we present many aspects of Auroville’s 51 years, focusing on the values of constant progress and a “youth that never ages” as enshrined in its Charter.

ACRES FOR AUROVILLE FLIER – 24 November 2019

Since its start, over 1000 babies have been born in Auroville.
Today, there are the children of the children of the first pioneers – a third generation carrying on the beautiful torch of Auroville!
These children have the privilege of imbibing the atmosphere of the great vision and ideals of Auroville.
Obviously, Auroville is here to stay!

Lands for Auroville Unified

According to Sri Aurobindo, perpetual youth is one of the characteristics of the Spirit
and The Mother enshrined the goals of “youth that never ages” and “constant progress” in the Auroville Charter.
How can we live these ideals, personally and collectively, to build a true City of Dawn?

New land funded by your donations – News from Siddhartha Farm

Food sustainability is a basic need for Auroville. In 2017, your donations funded new acres expanding Siddhartha Farm – one of Auroville’s oldest food providers, located on the fertile plain near Irumbai Lake.
Here’s a report from Herbert on what has been done with on the new land purchased thanks to your donations!

ACRES FOR AUROVILLE FLIER – 15 AUGUST 2019

For 51 years, the City of Dawn has flowered step by step, serving and showcasing the oneness of the Human Family in its rich diversity. For Sri Aurobindo, the unification of mankind was “a necessity in the course of Nature, an inevitable movement”. Auroville was created by The Mother to create a place for the “international spirit and outlook” that Sri Aurobindo said must grow up, in line with his great teaching that “all the nations are essentially one…” and that “Truth lies in union rather than in division”.

Kriya Youth Community – Space for new housing thanks to you!

Thanks to your solidarity, the City of Dawn now hosts 26 new housing units for Auroville’s youth, all built on new Auroville land that was purchased with your donations to Acres for Auroville! Known as the Kriya community, it responds to an urgent need for affordable youth housing, providing 14 single units, 6 family houses, 6 couple units, and a community kitchen for up to 50 residents. Kriya has quickly become a thriving new community, full of energy and youthful enthusiasm. Take a look at what your donations have enabled!

​Ed – an early Aurovilian

Ed joined Auroville in 1978, and was an innovative pioneer, working at the Matrimandir and then in greenwork at the Forecomers community: “Auroville was then essentially a number of disassociated blocks of land. Settlements were scattered all over the plateau. And, like the land we lived on, most Aurovilians were in basic survival mode. We had to provide shelter, food, water and a social connectivity for ourselves without any form of phone or electronics… eventually I was captured by the utter necessity and delightful challenge of Greenwork.”

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