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My experience in India!! Marta

My experience in India!! Marta

My name is Marta, I have been doing an internship in FSL-India Kundapur for 6 months and I will try to “put in paper” my experience all over this time. The project I work for is SAP-K, based in FSL training centre in Shetrakatte, rural area on the Southeast coast on India. SAP-K stands for Sustainable Agriculture Project- Kundapur and its main idea is to evolve a model of sustainable agriculture for a sustainable livelihood. We visit farmers who already carry out organic farming, we learn…

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Training on Vermicompost

Training on Vermicompost

We are happy to communicate you all that we have already ready the first organic Vermicompost in our training center in Kundapur. It has been a long time but, after facing different challenges and overcoming them, the first sample is ready to be used to powerfully fertilize our plants and trees.Remember this fertilizer is made out of dry leaves, soil, cow dung and kitchen waste.  

Chennai flood drive!!Kundapur

Chennai flood drive!!Kundapur

Unfortunately, as many of you might have already heard, Chennai (located on the Southeast coast of India) has been devastated by El Nino, weather condition recognized by heavy rains. Around 300 deaths, streets full of water, schools shut down, lack of food, medicines and drinking water and thousands of evacuated people is the current situation in the area. The worst might be to come due to mosquitoes, diseases and infections because of the low hygienic living conditions of people who have lost nearly everything. That…

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Plastic waste management

Plastic waste management

On December 5th 2015, HBP staff and volunteers along with other training centre staff members went to Gulwadi (small village next to ours) to learn how plastic waste is segregated in around our training centre area. It was very interesting to see how, here in India, waste management happens. Ladies were separating small pieces of plastics according to different characteristics and men where cutting the big pieces of plastics into small ones for an easier transportation. Big parcels made out of squeezed plastic bottles were in…

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Tent Excursion-December, 2015

Tent Excursion-December, 2015

On 4th December – 2015 FSL-India’s Tent school team organized an excursion trip for Yedthadi tent school children to Uppinkote Island, which is located 10 km away from Brahmavar. A total of 14 children participated in the excursion. It was a part of education trip. Usually tent school children will not get a chance to go for exposure trip, because of that we have organizes trips which makes children happy. Children enjoyed to climbing nets, jumping, swings etc…. and enjoyed the moment . It was…

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Health Check-up camp for Yedthadi tent families

Health Check-up camp for Yedthadi tent families

On 3rd of December FSL-India’s HBP team Organized Health Check-up camp at Yedthadi for tent families with collaboration of MSW Department – Srimathi Rukmini Shedthi memorial national Government first grade college Barkur, Bhoomi clinic Yedthadi and GUARD Organization Udupi.