The Founder of the Home: Albert
Albert Zwaan came to live in India, Auroville in 1997, after working for 20 years as the head of the outpatient department and operation theatre of a hospital in the Netherlands.
In 1999, he started working for the Auroville Health Centre in Aspiration as a nurse-administrator.
He also took responsibility for the Health Centre’s village program, as well as for raising funds, and became one of the administrators of the Auroville Health Fund, Auroville’s health care system.