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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Información básica
Con una población que en 2001 superaba los 1.000 millones de personas, India es el segundo país más poblado del mundo. De estos 1.000 millones de personas, menos de la mitad son mujeres (la estructura demográfica está compuesta por 993 mujeres por cada 1.000 hombres). Según los estudios llevados a cabo en torno a este tema, dicha estructura demográfica se debe a la discriminación sexual sistemática. Cerca de 245 millones de mujeres en India no
