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Month: June 2012

Session on Health & Hygiene for Children of Hyundai Employees

Session on Health & Hygiene for Children of Hyundai Employees

Chennai Facility team of FSL-India has been gradually making headway to address numerous health issues of the target community under model village project intervention. The team also has been extending health care service to people who live in the adjacent villages in Sriperumbudur so as to promote preventive health care among them. Recognizing the team’s efficiency in imparting health education, Hyundai Foundation requested Chennai Facility team to conduct health and hygiene session for the children and adolescents. This is the…

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Linkage of Irukattukottai Panchayat Level Federation with TNCDW

Linkage of Irukattukottai Panchayat Level Federation with TNCDW

As an important component of the Model Village Project, FSL-India has formed Self-help Groups (SHGs) in Irunkattukottai village. These SHGs are federated at the Panchayat Level. To strengthen the women groups, the Chennai Facility team of FSL-India organised many training for the representatives on roles and responsibility of SHG leaders, book-keeping, how to conduct monthly meeting, group auditing, linkages with government schemes and programs, linkages with banks and micro finance institutes and leadership development. Ever since the Panchayat Level Federation…

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Wounded Sea-Turtles Rescued by FSL-India Team

Wounded Sea-Turtles Rescued by FSL-India Team

On 19th June 2012, HBP team of FSL-India rescued two wounded Sea-Turtles from Kanchugodu (Marvante) village which is located near Kundapura coast in Udupi District. Having received the information from one of the local contact persons, FSL-India team under the leadership Mr. Manjunath rushed to the spot on a rescue operation. The team could find that two turtles got wounded due to heavy rain and tidal waves. While one turtle had lost the right flipper, the other could not move…

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Letter from a South-Korean Volunteer

Letter from a South-Korean Volunteer

During January and February 2012, FSL-India organised work camp in Chennai for South-Korean volunteers. Puduperu is one of the villages where around 30 Korean volunteers participated in varieties of activities with school children and renovated the school building.   During the camp volunteers were extremely glad and impressed by children’s affectionate gestures, communication, cultural exposure, food and so on.  Children also invited the Korean volunteers to their homes and shared with them about traditional practices and socio-cultural values. Recently, with…

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A Normal Day at Navabharat School – Children Action Trust

A Normal Day at Navabharat School – Children Action Trust

Exactly at 7.30 a.m. the noise of the school van reaches our ears and we know many children from Pudupakkam and the surrounding villages will walk to the road to be picked up. Now we have one and half hours left until the school starts and one hour till we get our breakfast which will arrives with the first van children.  After devouring breakfast we go down to the still-playing students. It’s not a far way because we are living…

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Sea-Turtle Contact Person’s Meeting

Sea-Turtle Contact Person’s Meeting

Sea-turtle contact person meeting was organized by the HBP team of FSL-India at Navunda (near Kundapur) on 29th of May 2012. Altogether 7 contact persons from different locations, one volunteer and a three-member team of FSL-India participated in the meeting. Indeed it was a good opportunity for the contact person to deliberate on various issues of Sea-Turtle conservation.   The primary objective of the meeting is to get to know each other, share experience and best practices on Sea Turtle…

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My Inter-cultural Experience in India

My Inter-cultural Experience in India

I wish to tell you about my time as a voluntary social worker and my inter-cultural experiences in India. First of all I would like to tell about myself.   My name is Simon Bering (19 years old) from Cologne, in West Germany.  My idea to spend a year in India was based on an experience with the help of AFS Germany in Paraguay. As a young boy of fifteen years, I had the pleasure to spend one year in…

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Six Hours of X-Mas Shopping

Six Hours of X-Mas Shopping

It was 23th of December just two days before Christmas celebration. A day the whole organization joined together to celebrate, eat well, play games and so on. A day on which long speeches about the benefits of work, the attitudes of NGO stuff and the big tasks ahead were hold. Everybody is happy and proud. Everybody has expectation of some Christmas gift and a few days with family and friends.   Everybody is ready to go home. But Mr. Sri…

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Pre-visit Meeting of 9th Happy Move Camp

Pre-visit Meeting of 9th Happy Move Camp

Pre-visit meeting of 9th Happy Move Camp was organised at FSL-India Office of Chennai Facility and HMI on 30th May 2012. The objective of the program was to chalk out plan of action for 9th Happy Move Camp. Dignitaries such as Mr. Sanny, Mr. Shan, Mr. Youghan, Mr. Ha, Mr. T. J. Lee and Mr. Sridhar from Hyundai Motors South Korea/India, and Mr. Sehoon Kim from International Work Camp Organization participated in the meeting. Mr. C. Doreswamy, the Joint Director…

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Inauguration of Panchayat Level Federation at Irunkattukottai

Inauguration of Panchayat Level Federation at Irunkattukottai

FSL India has been implementing Model Village Project at Irunkattukottai village in collaboration with Hyundai Motor India Foundation. Formation of Self-Help Group (SHG) for livelihood promotion and entrepreneurship development is one of the major components of the Model Village Project. All the SHGs are federated at Panchayat level.  Panchayat Level Federation is legally registered with Tamil Nadu Government. This is a stepping stone for women to avail and benefit from various welfare and development schemes and programs of government as…

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