Situated in Tamil Nadu in South India, near Pondicherry, Auroville is an experimental laboratory in the evolution of mankind. One of the many aims of Auroville is to promote development in the local bioregion – be it environment, technology, material and social change, leading towards a change in consciousness.
Therefore LEC is based in Auroville, a growing international township, inspired by two spiritual pioneers, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, and is a conglomeration of diverse world cultures, set amidst the existing local Tamil cultural milieu.
L.E.C. is an independent unit under the Auroville Village Action Group (AVAG), an organization specifically dedicated to working for social change in the immediate neighborhood of Auroville, with different groups of people – women, youth, children and adolescents.