Last Saturday in the small village Rayapettai in the Auroville bioregion people gathered for a special event – introduction of Village Mapping Project with Google Earth. Amazing, and maybe hard to imagine but Rayapettai is on the map of the world on net! The aim of the project which started in spring was to contribute to the cultural and social revitalization of the region, and improve rural development. The project was introduced to the villagers with huge map made by Village Mapping Project team, and a children's play, which told us about Google Earth on its own way. Now Rayapettai exists on the map of the whole world! Would any of other villages follow that great example?

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The Village Coordination Team was formed as an extension of the Tsunami Relief Village Coordination Team when the activity area was enlarged to include local villages as well as those directly impacted by the tsunami, requiring the participation of a more diversified group of Aurovilians.
One of the principal purposes of the Village Coordination Team is to review applications for micro projects which come in from the local villages. There are funds for supporting micro projects coming both from the project funded by Concern, an international NGO, as well as from the Tsunami RELIEF and rehabilitation Funds.
Criteria have been created for micro project grants, and 36 proposals have been considered, out of which 22 have been approved.