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Best Decision Ever! – By Anne Wichmann

Best Decision Ever! – By Anne Wichmann

In retrospect my decision to go to India and become a volunteer was quite spontaneous. And now Ican say: “that was the best decision I could have ever made!“ Throughout my time here in India I experienced so many things. It was full of fun, people, trips,music, colours, festivals and more. There also used to be tough times in which I struggled. But I never felt left alone. There were other volunteers helping me, who I could talk to. And…

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Dobrain – Providing digital cognitive development support for children between the age 3-7

Dobrain – Providing digital cognitive development support for children between the age 3-7

Dobrain is an educational app created for assessing and helping cognitive development for children of ages 3-7. Through research Dobrain  developers found that the cognition development in mankind is maximum in the ages 3-7 after which the information absorbing capacity or the development slows down with time. Dobrain has concentrated on this age group and developed an app to help children between 3 to 7 age group develop their cognition to full potential. Dobrain provides a milestone report which is obtained…

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VOLUNTEER VOICE: “INDIA IS A COUNTRY LIKE NO OTHER”

VOLUNTEER VOICE: “INDIA IS A COUNTRY LIKE NO OTHER”

How can I describe my last 6 months here in India? Here I have gone through thehighest highs and lowest lows of my life. I can still remember how my host fatherpicked me up from the bus stop. I was so excited for my host family and new home.But the fear was unfounded. I received a very warm welcome from my host familywith food and a string of flowers. My host family consists of the parents, my twoyounger host brothers…

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A MEMORABLE LEARNING EXPERIENCE

A MEMORABLE LEARNING EXPERIENCE

I had the opportunity to work as an FSL India youth worker in Ostrava, Czech Republic during my job shadowing experience. Rather I call it a life altering chance that provided me an understanding and exposure of different cultures. A first hand learning experience in all its aspects that allowed me to immerse myself in not just Czech society but also bring with me a bit of Portugal and Philippines traditions back to home in India. On the first day,…

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Volunteers Voice: Sports Day at Viveknagar School!

Volunteers Voice: Sports Day at Viveknagar School!

I’ve always believed that nothing shapes a person better than sports. It teaches discipline, leadership and much more.. But most importantly it teaches us to accept and learn from failures. To know that we’ve played a small part in imparting these qualities in the kids, warms my heart!It was amazing to see that all of kids were interested to take part in one or the other games. The zeal they displayed throughout the event, across two weeks, is something that…

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Live Your Dream!

Live Your Dream!

Late Dr. Abdul Kalam once said “You have to dream before your dream comes true”.In my story, my dream of traveling to Germany has finally become a true story through my“volunteering program”. What is volunteering? Who can be a volunteer? Volunteering is work foran organization without any financial cause. There are no professional courses required (Only aheart to serve people is what is needed). Hello everyone! I’m Sowmiya Purushothaman. I’m currently working as a volunteer under the Weltwaerts program as…

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Volunteer Voice!

Volunteer Voice!

I work together with another german girl as a volunteer in a primary school in Moodugiliyaru. We both live and work here for nine months. We are living in a hostfamily and on the weekends we try to see more of this beautiful country. In our school there are kids from age 5 to 12 and we try our best to improve their english skills a little bit. The workday is from 9am to 4pm and we have a lunchbreak…

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Few of my firsts as a volunteer!

Few of my firsts as a volunteer!

In this article I will describe some of my experiences and learnings from the first four weeks of my stay as a volunteer. Below I will drag the key of my first experiences when it comes to: Host family stays CREDIT I – projects Darasa Festival – Mysore I landed in Bangalore on the 14th of September 2022. FSL coordinator Manjunath met me at the Airport and followed me to Hunsur, where I was warmly welcomed by my first host…

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“India is a country of rich culture and unity in diversity”

“India is a country of rich culture and unity in diversity”

Three words: “I’m sorry”, “I love you”, “thank you”, are the maxim of Hawaiian philosophy baptized as ho’ponopono. And these words also be the same which we could to summarize our project at Chetana Trust. From August 29th that we landed in India until September 19th we cannot feel more grateful for the welcome, for the kindness, for the hospitality, for making us feel like one of them. Living the experience with a local family contributes to a total immersion…

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