Hi,
I am happy to announce that FSL India has a new HR Admin. Her name is Anitha and she will handle all three offices HR functions.
Rakesh Soans,
President
Author Archive
Save the Tigers
2010
03.07
03.07
Hi,
I want you to take a look at
Save Our Tigers | Join the Roar
Link: http://www.saveourtigers.com/JoinTheRoar.php
Save Our Tigers | Join the Roar
Please join the roar and save them
Our camp in Mnt. Abu Rajasthan
2009
08.04
08.04
I am please to inform you all that one of FSL India’s camp got coverage on National TV!! The camp was on working with blind children, and our volunteers did a wonderful work in the area. Thanks to our team leaders Prathap and Julia.
Follow this link to view the video of the news posted on youtube:
Apsarakonda falls
2009
07.02
07.02
Apsara konda (Apsarakonda) is a small village near Honnavar, town in North Kanara district. Six km from Honnavar, is situated the Apsara Konda Falls. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honavar
You can see a picture of the falls : http://gallery.holidaymakers.in/v/album02/Waterscapes-Karnataka/apsara-konda-honnavara.JPG.html
I had been there last week and felt a urge to just jump in and take a dip. It is situated in a serene environment of green tropical forest. Just above is the is the Narasimha temple, if you follow the steam after the falls you will end up in a lush green paddy fields just before the white sandy beaches of Honnavar. There is a small trail behind the temple that takes you above the hillock, where the forest department has build a small pagoda. Here, you can see very unique view of green paddy fields, long stretch of sandy beach, the ocean and the rock face of a mine. It is really worth it.
Beautiful place
The sparrow in Austria
2009
05.26
05.26
The sparrow in Austria: In Museum Quarter in Vienna, a little sparrow came and sat next to me. And then I remembered, around 25 years back there used to be lots and lots of of sparrows in Kundapur and the surrounding areas. One could see great flocks of 50 to 100 sparrows flying down like a huge cloud and perch on shop floors, shop roofs and in rice fields. But now, you cannot see any!! It really started got me thinking. Why?!! I will update you on why there are no sparrow in Kundapur, as I find out.
What is UBUNTU ?
2009
05.11
05.11
Ubuntu is a South African ethical ideology focusing on
people’s allegiances and relations with each other. The
word comes from the Zulu and Xhosa languages. Ubuntu
(pronounced “oo-boon-too”) is seen as a
traditional African concept, is regarded as one of the
founding principles of the new republic of South Africa
and is connected to the idea of an African Renaissance.
A rough translation of the principle of Ubuntu is
“humanity towards others”. Another
translation could be: “the belief in a
universal bond of sharing that connects all
humanity”
“A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.”
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
As a platform based on Linux, the Ubuntu
operating system brings the spirit of ubuntu to the software
world.
To know more : http://www.ubuntu.com
We at FSL India are using UBUNTU for nearly a year now and it is so exciting to use.
Hello and welcome to the FSL India BLog
2009
03.23
03.23
We the volunteering community of FSL contribute a lot towards world
peace and cultural understanding. In the process we do meet lot of
people and visit many places. So, Ivo our (present) web master,
popularly called by us as Mr. Ubuntu, came up with this wonderful IDEA
of creating a general blog to share to the world, what we do and what we
can do!!
come and enjoy, learn, Share, spread the good feeling that we have 
For all those oldies -> KEEP IN TOUCH.
Regards,
Rakesh S Soans,
President
FSL India