Living Routes, the non-profit
study-abroad organization from the USA which had been sending
university students to Auroville, Findhorn and other ecovillages for
the past 15 years, closed down in January this year. By the end of
March, Living Routes (USA) will legally dissolve as a non-profit
organization. In Auroville, this not only means no more Living Routes
students visiting, learning from and contributing to Auroville, but
also Living Routes-Auroville as a project under the unit Auroville
International Programme will also cease.
Living Routes is closing down because
it lost the academic accreditation from the University of
Massachusetts for all the programmes it was due to host in the
current Spring 2014. The university cited concerns about Living
Routes’ response to a health and safety situation that occurred
during the Fall 2013 programme in Costa Rica. While the revoking of
academic accreditation was, from the perspective of the university,
merely a suspension for on...
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