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Month: February 2019

Mavinakatte Primary School Visit FSL-India’s CEL

Mavinakatte Primary School Visit FSL-India’s CEL

On the morning of 27th February 2019, 93 students from Mavinakatte Government Primary School came to FSL-India’s Centre for Experiential Living with 3 teachers and their principal. The group was formed by the students of 6th and 7th standards, who came with the purpose of participating in an environmental awareness session. The group arrived with a big poster that stated “Make It Green” in Kannada. FSL-India welcomed them, and they all sat down in the meeting hall. After a short…

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Mid-Term Evaluation for FSL-India’s Long Term Volunteers from Bangalore and Mysore

Mid-Term Evaluation for FSL-India’s Long Term Volunteers from Bangalore and Mysore

In the month of February 2019, FSL-India’s LTV Bangalore region organised a Mid-Term Evaluation (MTE) for our Bangalore and Mysore Long Term Volunteers at Mysore. The event took place between 18th to 19th February 2019 @ Mysore. There were around 14 Volunteers from AFS & EG, Germany who took part in the evaluation. The main objective of the MTE is to evaluate the volunteer’s learnings and contributions, in order to develop appropriate strategies to attain quality results.To create a platform…

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Mid-Term Evaluation for FSL-India’s Long Term Volunteers from Pondicherry and Kanchipuram

Mid-Term Evaluation for FSL-India’s Long Term Volunteers from Pondicherry and Kanchipuram

In the month of February 2019, FSL-India’s LTV Bangalore region organised a Mid-Term Evaluation (MTE) for our Pondicherry and Kanchipuram Long Term Volunteers, at Pondicherry. The event took place between 14th to 15th February 2019, at Pondicherry. In Pondicherry, there were around 18 volunteers from AFS and IJGD, Germany who took part in the evaluation. The main objective of the MTE is to evaluate the volunteer’s learnings and contributions, in order to develop appropriate strategies to attain quality results. To…

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LTV Cultural Event – Pondicherry, February 2019

LTV Cultural Event – Pondicherry, February 2019

On 20th February 2019, FSL-India’s Pondicherry coordinator organised a Cultural Event (CE) for our regular LTV volunteers. Every month, we organise a cultural event for our regular volunteers and we take them to any cultural and historical places, which are located in and around Pondicherry. This month, the Cultural Event was focused on Religion and Nature theme, and we took our volunteers to the Botanical Garden, Sri Karaneswara Nataraja Temple, Manakula Vinayagar Temple and Aurobindo Ashram. Sri Karaneswara Nataraja Temple:…

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WC 828 – Kundapura and Goa

WC 828 – Kundapura and Goa

Our Work Camp started on 4th of February, and it finished on 17th of February 2019. Our team leader was  Manjesh and our group was formed by 5 women:  2 Japanese girls – Kiho and Shinoka, 1 girl from Czech republic, Domeneka, 1 Italian- Lilith, and 1 much older woman of 65, from Italy too, Patrizia. The camp began at Goa, Canacona. Our group had been living in 2 small huts on Palolem beach, and every day, we have been…

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Happy moments at the 22nd Happy Movers Camp, Anantapur – Manjula Tallalli, Team Leader

Happy moments at the 22nd Happy Movers Camp, Anantapur – Manjula Tallalli, Team Leader

I am Manjula Tallalli from Haveri. I got an opportunity to work as a Team Leader for FSL-India’s 22nd Happy Move Camp, which was organised at Kuruvandlapalli village, Anantapur district, from 15th-24th January 2019. The camp was held as a CSR initiative of Kia Motors, with South Korean volunteers and the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University students of Anantapur. The camp had 4 groups and I worked with team B. It had 20 Korean volunteers and 4 Indian volunteers. The camp began…

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Contribution of FSL-India’s volunteers to Shri Gurumahanteshwara Sustainable Agriculture Project – Rahul Dayalu

Contribution of FSL-India’s volunteers to Shri Gurumahanteshwara Sustainable Agriculture Project – Rahul Dayalu

I am Rahul Dayalu, an IT engineer turned farmer and writer. I have been associated with FSL-India to host volunteers in our project since November, 2016. I was looking at pictures of our project just received from Miriam, a volunteer from FSL-India, who worked with us for few months. I cannot believe it’s been more than a year we started this project in my village S Hoskote near Mysore, Karnataka, India. Those photos speak more than words on our initial…

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Enriching experiences I made here – Sophie Elisabeth, Germany: Women’s Development Trust – Women Empowerment

Enriching experiences I made here – Sophie Elisabeth, Germany: Women’s Development Trust – Women Empowerment

My name is Sophie. I’m a volunteer from Germany and I live in Tamil Nadu since the last 10 months. I’m working in the NGO Servo Trust, which is a Women Empowerment Project from FSL-India. Servo Trust is working together with the Forest Department of this district, in the Tamil Nadu Bio-Diversity Green Project. It’s an environment program financed by JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency)  and the government of Tamil Nadu, with the aim of afforestation. Every year, many hundred…

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The Joy of Learning: Raju, Nisarga Grama, Sparsha Trust, Bangalore

The Joy of Learning: Raju, Nisarga Grama, Sparsha Trust, Bangalore

Hello to one and all! My name is Raju. Since April 2018, I am working at Nisarga Grama, Sparsha Trust. As the person in charge of Nisarga Grama, I am responsible for all the 133 children which are living here at the moment. In the morning. the children wake up at 6 am to do yoga and their prayers. After that. they get ready for school, eat their breakfast and leave for school around 9 am. Between 3.30 pm and…

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Environmental Rally at Mavinakatte Village – “To Conserve our Nature for our Future”

Environmental Rally at Mavinakatte Village – “To Conserve our Nature for our Future”

On 17th February, FSL-India’s HBP team and the MSW students from the Master of Social Work Department of Government First Grade College, Tenkanidiyoor visited the Mavinakatte Higher Primary School. Their purpose was to create an awareness about the environmental issues among the village people, along with the schoolchildren which we are facing in our daily life, such as plastic, deforestation, harming the flora and fauna, garbage, pollution etc. A few days before the skit, the MSW students prepared the skit’s…

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