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Issue No: 363, October 2019

Welcoming Volunteers: do we have the right attitude?

My name is Maël. I was born in Auroville in 1994 and was partially raised here – the other part of my education happened in France. I am now settling back in Auroville. During my study of Social Anthropology, I wrote a masters’ thesis on Auroville based on a six-months fieldwork during which I had been in contact with a lot of volunteers, thanks mainly to ‘La Maison des Jeunes’ which mainly hosts ‘Savi’ Volunteers, where I was living then. Today, many of them – as well as new arrivals – are good friends. Although I am a ‘child of Auroville’, I also feel very close to volunteers and Newcomers, perhaps because I’ve spent half of my life outside of Auroville. Feeling that I’m more or less sitting in the middle, if not on both chairs, I felt a call to share my perspectives. Auroville is an inspiring dream, isn’t it? Year after year, our community attracts an increasing number of volunteers from all around the world. Auroville is seen as a platform to explore oneself, to progress and g...
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Issue No. 363, October 2019

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