Archive for February, 2010

Eco-Clubs Get-together

On the 20th February 2010 FSL and the Eco-Clubs project organized an Eco-Clubs Get Together at Lions Hall at Chaitanya Special School, Kundapura. The 8 schools which are part of the FSL Eco-Clubs project were invited. The children had to prepare a speech competition on the topic “What would the world without plastic?” and they [...]


FSL Bilateral Work Camp in January 2010

Camp code : FSL-IWO Place : Mysore Number of volunteers: 19 Theme : SOCIAL/KIDS Team leaders : Joy & Manjunath This was a bilateral workcamp with our Koran partner IWO. The Korean volunteers renovated a school in this bilateral camp. They painted the school walls and also repaired the roof of the school. The volunteers [...]


Intercultural Activity

On the 6th February, The International Committee had its first event in Kundapur – the International Cinema was organised in cooperation with the Bhandarkar College and was showing the Bollywood hit “Delhi 6″. A mixed audience – residents and foreigners – enjoyed the movie which dealt with religious and social problems in India. At the [...]


FSL Work Camp in January 2010

Camp code : FSL-WC-452 Place : Bangalore Number of volunteers: 14 Theme : SOCIAL/KIDS Team leaders : Dinesh Saranga & Ashley The volunteers painted a school with educational charts and cleaned the surroundings of the school. They also did some activities with children like conducting games, art and nursery rhymes. The volunteers also taught basic [...]


News from NVDA Meeting in Taiwan

Rohan D’souza- Director and Daya- Work camp coordinator visited Taiwan to Participate in 8th Training & Networking work camp and the 7th general Assembly of Network for Voluntary Development in Asia(NVDA) held in Taisi,Yun-Lin County , Taiwan, from Jan 17th To 26th, 2010. This General assembly meeting was hosted by NVDA member Vision Youth Action [...]


Welcome! – Orientation Week Feb. 2010

This month we welcome four new volunteers from Germany and Italy. Have a great stay with lot’s of meaningful, inter-cultural moments. We also welcome Girish, our newest addition to FSL staff in Kundapur. From left to right: Julia (Spandana), Giulia (Kishkinda Trust), Juliane (Kanchugodu School), Aline (DhaniDevelopment, Bangalore), Austin (FSL coordinator) and Girish (new FSL [...]