What is Auroville? What do we aspire for Auroville? These questions were the frame for the discussion organized by the Resident's Assembly Service in order to gather Aurovilians and New Comers. A long meeting with plenty of questions, explanations and discussions. During the evening the new Entry Service team has also introduced its new members. The evening was organized with a series of mini events also to make the whole meeting alive and to encourage the present people to interact together. This event was held at Visitor's Centre.

Michael and Guido of Quiet Healing Centre welcomed some 20 odd Newcomers for an introductory tour. They talked about how the Centre started almost 10 years ago and about various therapies and facilities. Quiet is well known for Watsu therapy and mainly attracts guests from Europe in the peak season. All therapies and massages are offered for free to Aurovilians and Newcomers with priority for those suffering from ailments.

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Last reception for newcomers started in Solar Kitchen. Quite a big group of them was guided and supplied by useful informations about Nandini, Free Store, New Pour Toous, Food Link and Solar Kitchen. In this receptions was shown what was done trough the past and how much energy and will is taken today to follow the main idea and guidance of The Mother about basic needs of people who come to Auroville to participate with their energy, love and service, and where money exchange should not occur. So, in Nandini are already around 600 people involved, and in New Pour Tous counts over 400 members, and Free Store is visited daily by 40 to 50 people.

As usual about 40 people attended the Newcomer Reception at Pitchandikulam forest. Joss, the founder of the community talked about his life experiences and the early days of Auroville. He made a presentation of the Nadakuppam environmental education centre which he initiated and is now fully operational. We also saw a short video of the Adayar Poonga ecological preservation project which is being directed by Joss and in development stage.
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Last Friday a reception for Newcomers took place at SaraCon, which is the second of such events, part of the contemporary; Newcomers Program. All Newcomers were invited. Aurovilians Chandresh from SaraCon, Orly from Well Paper, Anandi from KOFPU, Aurelio from Svaram were in attendance. In the evening a drum and dance performance was performed by some youngsters from Svaram. To listen to an excerpt of this meeting please click PLAY, or click here to download it.

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On Tuesday Raghu, a Newcomer himself, presented the first Newcomer reception at  Town Hall's Conference Room. The project is to give Newcomers an introduction on how Auroville works and  organizes itself. At this meeting it was explained how different Auroville working groups operate; there was Otto from FAMC, Carel and Raman from Working Committee and Tobi from l'Avenir. This initial program is part of a larger series of programs for Newcomers. The next meeting will probably be held in Saracon some time next month. These meetings will continue to be recorded.

Next piece is contribution in Slovene language, and it's divided in two parts – interview with Matej, who just became a Newcomer. Matej is telling us his story about Auroville, the way he feels about the life here, and talks about his plans. In second part is a slovene  translation of Mothers words, and of course the basic guideline for Auroville, and for all those who are coming here – Auroville charter.

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Il y a quelques mois, l'équipe française avait décidée de suivre Chloé qui à l'époque, souhaitait devenir NewComer. Aujourd'hui nous la retrouvons et la rencontrons de nouveau pour savoir où elle en est de ses démarches. Elle nous dévoile aussi un nouveau projet de logement que nous tâcherons de suivre durant les prochain mois.
Ce programme que vous pouvez télécharger, sera diffusé à partir du lundi 7 octobre, accompagné de l'Agenda de Mère et de Savitri lus par Gangalakshmi,

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