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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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Not a monitoring visit!

Not a monitoring visit!

The main focus of FSL-India’s YDP for this month was to visit schools in the Kundapur and Mysore zones. As the title suggests, this was not a monitoring visit. The intention of this visit was: To build relationships with schools Understand receptivity of the methodology by the school and the children To understand the efficiency of session design and how it is playing out in the field Feedback on the facilitation style of our coordinators. What are their strengths? What…

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Volunteering in Germany – Ajith Kumar, Outbound participant

Volunteering in Germany – Ajith Kumar, Outbound participant

I am Ajith Kumar, working as a Weltwärts volunteer, for the German Red Cross. Right now, I am working at Meschede, in an Old Age Home, as an in-house technician. I arrived in Germany on the 21st of November 2018. When I reached Frankfurt airport, the wind and the climate was really cold. But it was a new experience for me, because suddenly, I needed to adapt to the climate. Two German people were waiting for us, and then we met…

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Banana Circle Implementation at Mavinakatte Primary School

Banana Circle Implementation at Mavinakatte Primary School

During the morning of 19th of February, FSL-India implemented 2 banana circles at Mavinakatte Government Primary School. This task was carried out by some of FSL-India’s volunteers – Jan, Florian, Anna and Carlota, as well as Manjesh and Manju – FSL-India’s staff. The team could count on the help and support of the school staff, as well as the huge involvement of some students. The choice to implement a banana circle is because it follows a permaculture design. Permaculture is…

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