In January 2002, the charity signed its second three year contract with the European Commission for a project in the field of the Environment, specifically Tropical Forests. This was an integrated project to document and restore portions of the tropical dry evergreen forest (TDEF) of the Coromandel Coast (an area which includes the Auroville bioregion) and develop management structures to maintain them using a Shared Forest Management, aiming to reverse the degradation of the forest in the region. This is a unique and vitally important forest type, found only in this part of India. It provides a rare biological richness due to its very high species abundance, but is now close to extinction, as only 0.01% still survives.

The school forms part of the New Creation community, located close to the village of Kuilapalayam, where the majority of the pupils live. The school today caters for 240 children, both boys and girls, between the ages of 3 and 15 years, and also includes a kindergarten/crèche.

Through an Auroville project called Gateway, AVI UK helped to support a number of different projects in the fields of Education, Communication and Community Development. The projects were funded by a substantial private donation to Auroville, through AVI UK.