Remembering the apprentices

I've been updating the website again - and got far more done than I expected.  One of the sections I had to update was about our apprenticeship program.  Reading the report I wrote about our successes and failures it all came flooding back.  It was a very challenging time.

This is a picture of the first group which I think overall was quite a positive experience.  I think almost everyone got something out of the course and several of them went on to do interesting things.  Rajan is now part of the Buddha Garden team, Selvam became an Aurovilian and works in Annapurna farm and most of the others have found themselves jobs, got married etc.

The second group were much less positive and it seemed that most of them were on the course to do as little as possible for the stipend that we gave them. After a year of trying to get them interested in what we were doing and getting very little response the final straw was when they started stealing from us.  It was all so negative we decided to close the course early.  

We are still open to having apprentices, but they have to show us they are serious about wanting to learn.