Archive for March, 2010

Laura Brücker – Tent School – speaks at Rotaract

Rotaract Club Kundapur has invited Laura Brücker, volunteering in our tent school project, to talk about her opinion on Kundapur, Indian lifestyle, language, etc. She spoke about her experiences and opinions on Indian family life and in her project, all in our local language Kannada. Her work and the interest and curiosity in learning other [...]


Flora and Fauna Club – Volunteer Entertainment

Every now and then, we volunteers are asked to take part in some function and prepare a little entertainment program. For our batch it started last year at the annual JC-event, for which we wrote a gripping English fairy-tale – a heavily altered version of Snow White with a strong environmental message -, learned an [...]


Workshop for “Sustainable Fisheries”

…organized by Karnataka Forest Department Mangalore circle and Western Ghat Task Force, Government of Karnataka. FSL India  was invited by  the Forest Department of  Mangalore to give a talk about the work of NGOs for sea turtle protection and problems caused by the modern fishing  methods to the sea turtle population. Participants were officers of [...]


WANTED: 5 Pics of Kundapur and sourrounding!

“Where can I buy postcards of Kundapur?”. This is a question we’re often asked. The sad answer is: There are none. The goods news: The “Eco tourism” project is going to change the situation and will create them! Please sent us your 5 most beautiful pictures from Kundapur and sourrounding (as normal: as fast as [...]


FSL Work Camp in March 2010

Camp code : FSL-WC-457      Place : Goa       Number of volunteers: 7 Theme : SOCIAL/KIDS  Team leaders : Pratap & Goutham The volunteers renovated a school in this camp, they painted the walls. They also taught basic English like alphabets, numbers,… and songs to the children. They played with the children and did some activities with [...]


Inaguration of Sanitation Project

FSL India has built 15 Toilets under “Sanitation project” between October 2009 to Feb 2010, with the help of South Korean volunteers. It was inaugurated by Mr.Ln. Basavaraj, Governor of Lions Club, on 13th March in Trasi village. President of local Panchayat, President of sanitation committee Mr Abraham Chako, members of Lions club, Staffs of [...]


IJGD Mentor’s training

IJGD has organised first Mentors Training in 2009 in Berlin. Participants from all over the world has participated in that event. Mentors training 2010 consisted of  following sessions to keep minimum standard to make the WW program successful. The sessions are,self reflection on past performance, updating IJGD procedures, Quality management, coordination system, Finance, conflict management [...]


Save the Tigers

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Profile – Girish

Hello, I am Girsh, new member of FSL India. I joined FSL India in the beginning of February. I am 25 years old, basically from Puttur. My education background is, Master of Social work in Community Development.   I have also carried out reaserch work on Empowerment of Women through Self Help Groups.   I [...]


FSL Work Camp in February 2010

  Camp code : FSL-SPL-110 Place : Kerala Number of volunteers: 19 Theme : YOGA/AYUVERDA/SOCIAL Team leaders : Rahul & Katharina The volunteers looked after of the Ayuverda garden and they had Ayuverda classes and two hours per day of yoga. The volunteers painted the school premises; they also painted the educational charts on the [...]