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Issue No: 307, February 2015

Volunteering at Eco-Femme

My name is Melanie and I have been a full-time volunteer in Auroville since July 2014. I contribute my time to a unit called Eco Femme where I mostly work on sales, marketing and business strategy. Eco Femme is a social enterprise with a global mission and reach, working in the area of menstrual hygiene management. In addition to promoting eco-positive menstrual practices, the project supports education for girls and livelihood for women. Eco Femme has designed a premium range of washable cloth pads that are available internationally and in urban India. Profits from sales help sustain the educational outreach work in rural communities, provide cloth pads at cost price to economically-disadvantaged women, and give the opportunity to school girls to get cloth pads for free. Though Eco Femme is where I ended up as a volunteer, it is not how I got to discover Auroville... After writing my master's thesis in France, I figured I would like to have an NGO work experience. Th...
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Issue No. 307, February 2015

  • Discovering the oneness of the Matrimandir Garden
  • Communicating for social change
  • Dancing between structure and openness
  • Community reflections on the volunteer experience
  • A volunteer’s experience
  • Volunteering at Eco-Femme
  • La Maison des Jeunes
  • Pics from the Past
  • Art Cart: connection through creativity
  • Turning 10, Tsunamika takes on a new cause
  • Letters
  • Visiting the Mahatma Gandhi Home for the Aged
  • Are volunteers milk cows?
  • The volunteers’ financial contribution

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