Welcome, to the website of Life Education Centre
Life Education Centre is an outreach school of Auroville, founded in 1991, providing an on-going program for training of young, underprivileged village-girls between the ages of 14-21 from Indian villages surrounding Auroville.
What does Life Education Centre mean?
Life: ( = the main Human thing) and the future of that.
In the context of recognizing and ameliorating the role of women in an oppressive society L.E.C. provides a training to enhance a growing sense of security in oneself, increased self-awareness and empowerment.
Education: ( = learning the things you want)
The girls are given an opportunity to learn real life skills, also including tailoring, crochet, typing, computers as well as simultaneously offering them a safe space where they are free to express and explore thoughts and feelings about themselves, allowing them also to reconnect back into the flow of society from which they have been cut, when they are forced to stop their schooling.
Centre: (= a safe place where the above activities are done).
L.E.C. is a therapeutic learning community, a centre where the needs of every student are evaluated and addressed. Guided by the coordinator the girls are encouraged to support each other like within a family.
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Background information
India, with a population of more than 1000 million in 2001, is the world’s second most populous country. From that 1000 million people, less than half of that are women. (the sex ration is 933 females per 1.000 males). According to research on this subject, systematic gender discrimination is the root-cause of this. Around 245 million women in India cannot read or write, which makes that India has the largest number of illiterate women in the world. Most of these illiterate women live in rural areas. Read more here ... >>
