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05 October 09 diary

By Thulir | Published: December 5, 2009

Building Construction Part 9 – completing the cycle shed work! The much awaited cycle shed, finally got ready this month! A few minor works like floor levelling and finishing the walls by pointing were undertaken and the shed is now operational. This also means we have more workshop space now as cycles were being parked […]

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04 September 09

By Thulir | Published: December 5, 2009

Building Construction Part 8 –Construction of the Cycle shed. Further progress was made this month on the completion of the walls and putting up of the roof of the cycle shed. As the structure took shape there was excited anticipation of parking all the Thulir cycles. In the meantime, more students have aquired cycles, so […]

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03 August 09

By Thulir | Published: September 3, 2009

Balu [left extreme] and Balaji [third from left] have made significant contributions to the course this month. After three weeks of teaching Balu left this month. Balaji, an enthusiastic volunteer came again this month to help in the course. He plans to spend more time at Thulir in September. Building Construction Part 5 — Time […]

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02 July 09

By Thulir | Published: August 11, 2009

July 09 Balaji’s visit: Balaji, a volunteer with Asha visited us and spent a few days. He had come to Sitttilinig ona a bicyle and this generated a lot of interest in biking and bicycles. Balaji explained how gear bicyles work and showed our students how to use the gears. Building Construction Part 1 – […]

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01 June 09

By Thulir | Published: July 11, 2009

June 09 Plumbing line for irrigation Since the organic vegetable plot is slowly expanding, we decided to lay PVC irrigation pipes to take water from the open well for the plants. This work was executed by the students in the first week of June     Making Torches with White LEDs and bamboo For the […]

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Newsletter — Feb 09 to June 09

By Thulir | Published: July 3, 2009

Blessed by a few welcome showers of rain in the first week of june, the entire Sittilingi valley heaved a sigh of relief.Temperatures that were soaring at 40-41 degrees Celsius, came down to 34-36 degrees C.The grass, plants and trees responded in a flash to the rains by sprouting fresh, green leaves.The scorched, dry dusty […]

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News update Sept 08 to Jan 09

By Thulir | Published: February 18, 2009

Welcome to the News update from Thulir. In this post we review happenings of the past 5 months Marathon Fever As we write this blog today our senior students – 3 girls and 4 boys, have just finished participating in the Auroville Marathon. We just received an excited phone call from them. The marathon fever […]

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News Update April to August 2008

By Thulir | Published: August 29, 2008

Welcome to the News update from Thulir. In this post we review happenings of the past 5 months Bee keeping update: The colonies in our Bee boxes are doing well. During end of August, in the 5 boxes we have in Thulir, we were able to get 2.5 litres of honey and the bee colonies […]

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News Update of January to March 2008

By Thulir | Published: March 25, 2008

Children’s Committee in Thulir Selvaraj shifted from Thulir to help with the organic farmers’ co-operatives. Gowri left to pursue a B.Ed. course. So Thulir is now run by some of our students – Perumal (19), Senthil (19), Rajammal (17) and Devaki (17). Senthil and Perumal teach “vocational skills” to the young children in the weekends […]

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Thulir Trust formally registered

By Thulir | Published: October 20, 2007

Registration of Thulir Trust Thulir Trust has been formally registered in October 2007. The three Trustees of Thulir Trust are Mr.Manoharan (Managing Trustee), Dr.Shylaja Devi and Ms.Rama Sastry. Based on the rich experience of working with adivasis in Gudalur for more than two decades, these individuals decided to start this Trust to support educational activities […]

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