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Heart to Heart from the Founder

This message is to celebrate our journey of two decades, and our growth from an intuitive effort to create a stimulating, after school learning space for children, to a focussed organisation on a mission to address the urgent cause of emotional and mental health and social agency, for children and youth from marginalised backgrounds.

I represent the AURA ecosystem – the organisation, the team, our volunteers, our trustees and advisors, our CSR partners who have backed this work with strong belief in its efficacy and our participants over the years. AURA’s strength lies in its people, who have built it with commitment, heartfulness, simplicity, openness, flow and joy.

Founded in 2007, AURA aimed to create a space where children’s fear could be transformed into love, believing it’s the key to a more fulfilling life. We sowed this seed in the landscape of meaningful learning. Today, it stands tall, providing shade to children and young adults from marginalized communities, and their caregivers.

AURA nurtures an environment where our participants discover that they matter, have potential, and can’t be defined by their circumstances. With compassion, understanding, and a chance, they can give their best back. They learn to shine within themselves.

At AURA, we believe in the power of love and truth, authentic conversations strengthen relationships, and collaboration is essential. We believe we can work through conflict, trust others, and feel safe in our diverse world.

In a world that favours logic and linearity, science and technology – emotions and learning to cultivate the wisdom of the heart have to struggle to take their place at the table. What is less understood is that emotional regulation is in fact the foundation on the basis of which, an individual makes life-affirming choices and develops personal and social responsibility. If anything, this should receive attention and priority status in our homes and educational institutions. Our future focus is to advocate for this and develop systemic and individual capacity through dissemination and training.

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