News & Notes 604:Auroville International News from the Centres
Entity::Auroville International News from the Centres
Entity::NETHERLANDS
On 7 June AVI Netherlands held its general assembly in the southern city of Nijmegen. Board members are still Wim van Megen (president/secretary), Jan Pieter Derksen (treasurer), while Josee Lamers and Adri Bolsenga are general members. Ms Lamers, who presents the centre on the umbrella AVI Board, and who is candidate president for a new Dutch AVI board, has been requested to find new general members for the same. In a pleasant ambiance, the general assembly was updated on various developments in Auroville. Among these was a detailed update of the ICT/optical fiber project of Aurovilians Chandresh, Manu, JV and others, that is getting more and more shape. It was given at the hand of the elaborate ‘Auroville Campus Area Network’ presentation, put together by young Dyuman. All this and more in the centre’s recent newsletter downloadable at: http://goo.gl/CHc9Ez
Entity::UK
The AVI UK centre came out with a newsletter that endeavours to veer a bit away from the club bulletin format to a paper with more in-depth articles. “The Newsletter will continue to give news and updates from Auroville and AVIUK, but from time to time we will feature some aspect of the vision of the founder, whom we know as the Mother, and her originating purpose in creating Auroville. She saw the emerging township as a place in which the research into our human condition and the future evolution of our species, so brilliantly expounded in the works of Sri Aurobindo, would be carried forward for the benefit of all mankind. In this issue we begin to explore the nature and possibilities of human consciousness as an integral part of Auroville’s mission to India and the world.”
The articles in the current letter are mainly written by Alan Vickers (Vikas), Sonia Dyne and Alan Herbert. It can be obtained from the centre’s secretary Angiras via info (at) aviuk.org .
ACRES FOR AUROVILLE
Centres are rejoicing with regard to an announcement from the Auroville Land Board of a first 1.6 acres land acquisition directly adjacent to Matrimandir, made possible by the Acres for Auroville campaign, the joint action of Auroville International with Lands for Auroville Unified (LFAU). The A4A team writes: It was "the most central piece of unpurchased lands in Auroville" (the words of one Aurovilian) and it's now fully recorded in the Tamil Nadu Land Registry. “We warmly congratulate Auroville's Land Board for this success!”
AUROHOST
a small update from Bryan (AVI USA) tells us that AuroHost ― Hosting traveling members of the Auroville worldwide family ― lists at the moment 127 members from 19 countries (most of them from India, Germany and USA), while 5 hosting requests are in the process of being worked out right now.
Entity::FRANCE
AVI France held its general assembly in Paris on Saturday, 20th of June.
For all AVI matters, contact Vani via vani (at) auroville.org.in/ This column is maintained by mauna (at) auroville.org.in