Hello everybody, my name is Paula and I am 19 years old. I am from Germany, Aachen and since August 2018, I live in India, Manoor-Padukere. I will stay here until the end of June 2019, and I live in a host family with 2 host sisters (16 & 18 years and 1 very nice Grandma. I am working at Padukere Government Higher Primary School in Manoor, and every morning, I only need 5 minutes to go there. I decided…
Vanakkam! My name is Thorben Roth and I am a volunteer from Germany, and I came this year, in April, to India. I am doing a social service, which will last 11 months and I came with a group of people, who are also doing the same. My organisation is AFS-Germany, but the partner organisation which is the organization I am working with is FSL-India, located in India. My project in which I am working is a school for special…
It’s been 3 months now – I never imagined that I would spend a year volunteering in Berlin, since I have done my studies in engineering. Like the saying goes, everything is planned and happens according to it. Since always, I was interested in designing creatives, DIYs (Do-It-Yourself) etc. I was fortunate enough that I got to work in a project called Speilmittle. Speilmittle is a place for creative minds. Here, creative toys are made for children, blind people, senior…
On the 23rd of January 2019, FSL-India’s Sea Turtle Conservation (STC), Environmental Education (EE), Sustainable Agriculture Project-Kundapur (SAP-K), Social Entrepreneurship (SE) and Work Camp volunteers went to Angali Primary School with FSL-India’s Field Officer, Manjesh. It is a very small school with around 40 students who live nearby – some of them can see their houses from the school, and the classes have reduced groups. In that school, another FSL-India Long-Term Volunteer who teaches the schoolchildren, took the initiative to…