Enlight: Social responsibility outreach initiatives
To provide meaningful and mutually beneficial opportunities to share knowledge, exchange ideas, consider practice, discuss challenges, generate learning and build connections.
URAVU has for its endeavour building relationships with local communities. To facilitate understanding of the bio region villages their heritage and culture. By framing the experiences in a language allowing visitors and guests to understand local customs and traditions. Design and deliver a peer and collaborative continuous learning relationships as part of human interactions for Inclusive Growth.
Bringing social and economic benefit in an inclusive, sustainable and people-centred way. Focused on people-centred and locally-led approaches driven by inclusivity of individuals and communities. Activities and learning being co-created, developed and delivered by, with and for the people, communities, practitioners, organisations and decision-makers. Facilitators being the Youth of the local villages through experience sharing and activities.
KALA is a service that has for its objective to aid and assist the underprivileged but hard-working bioregion village artisans and craftsmen in a growing technology run and industrialised world to key their arts and crafts to continue in continuity. Kala is a bridge of contact for all contributors to contribute to their upliftment and respectful livelihood. Ensuring continuity of their valuable and rich knowledge and experience as a blessing and boon from them as a community activity for the village’s growth and development.
Mentoring local village folk to build and grow their concepts and ideas, live their goals and dreams.
Handholding to implement tools, technologies, procurement and marketing activities.
Eco-system to interact with peers to share expertise and experiences together grow opportunities.
AKKAI initiative, offers livelihood opportunities to bioregion village women affected by social and family constraints and in need of resources to care for family members. These Akka and Amma entrepreneurs are given guidance in food safety, nutrition and business techniques, among other facets of selling these meals.
Using a network of village volunteers to drive the community outreach program concentrated on identifying women who need financial assistance, while maintaining a work-life balance.
The food cart will allow the women to earn an income from their cooking skills. They can provide food and savouries during festivals and events in the local community and villages.
They say the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, but what they probably never mentioned was that sometimes, the way to women’s liberation is also through the kitchen, a source of healthy food and well-being.
ILAMAI meaning Youth is formed by young people, community members and contributors who wanted to create innovative programmes to engage young people.
Motivating them to have new experiences, gain experiences and skills, become giving contributors in their communities and make a positive difference to their lives and the lives of others around then. Young people from different back grounds, ages and cultures.
Joining and working together to bring about understanding, cohesion in their local communities and the wider society. Use environmental improvements as a means of achieving social and economic change.
Developing young people to carry out social action projects in their community.
TAMIZH at its simplest, is sentience and awareness of internal and external existence. Tamil – means ‘sweetness’ and ‘Culture’ has been defined as ‘sweetness and light’. ‘Tamil’ and ‘Culture’, therefore, make a most graceful combination both in Language and Life. Culture has been defined as a ‘way of life’, as ‘sweetness and light’, as ‘activity of thought and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling’. Imbibing Tamil tradition and cultural to the youngsters, to sensitise young minds on the rich legacy left back by their ancestors. For the future generations to take pride in its land its rich language and culture. Be proud of displaying our cultural richness to people of other states. Share with our fellow members that Tamils were a pioneer in all the form of sciences, be it medicine, astrology or food habits. Our past generations knew that Music has a very deep connection with sound health they used 108 musical instruments to facilitate good health and well-being using sound as an medium.
- Creating awareness at community and school level programmes.
- Designing and conducting cultural programmes at community as well school level.
- Establishing cultural societies in school level for educational development.
- Organize competitions and conscious circles of learning.
Your support and donation will aid in developing the local communities which is the main goal of responsible tourism.
Kindly contact us at the following Email ID: enlight@auroville.org.in before making your contributions.
For Enlight Team,
Arun, Anand, Balaji.
Enlight – Light of Auroville
L.E.A.D – Auroville Foundation,
Auroville, Tamil Nadu, India -605101
Email: enlight@auroville.org.in
Mobile: +91 8270071581