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Volunteer Voice: A Second home

Volunteer Voice: A Second home

My time in India was overwhelmingly wonderful, diverse and challenging. Never in my life have I been pulled out of my comfort zone so many times and never in my life have I grown and evolved so much as an individual. I spent 10 months living with an amazing and super loving host family in Kundapura who became very close to my heart. My project was working in a primary school, mostly teaching basic english and maths in the most…

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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 so far..

India so far..

My overall experience of India is very positive!After the first weeks of constant confrontation with new things I got to see all the beautiful things about Indian culture, people and the land. Because literally everything is different to Germany it was obviously a lot to handle in the first place, though I had a very warm welcome and felt home soon! Indian people have been so welcoming and open towards me and for that I am very thankful. I got…

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GoTeens Camp!!

GoTeens Camp!!

FSL India has partnered with Solidarities Jeunesses– France and partners from Canada, Spain, Italy, Greece and Japan for the Erasmus+ project named “GoTeens” The main aim of the project “GO with Teenagers Engagement and Empowerment through Networking” is to support the quality development of youth work by elaborating and formalising tools and improving competences to prepare, implement and evaluate international projects for teenagers. Furthermore, the project will strengthen the exchange among youth organisations and young people. It will also improve…

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Seashore Plantation Drive, Kundapura.

Seashore Plantation Drive, Kundapura.

For the last two years FSL India has been planning a seashore plantation in kundapura! The area where the sea turtle nesting takes place, on the Kodi beach is exposed to light pollution, which distract the hatchling from reaching the Sea. To help prevent this from happening in the future, FSL India decided to have a sea shore plantation drive to build a Green Cover. On our 75th Independence Day, FSL- India planted trees and vines that spontaneously grow on…

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Training on Sea Turtle and Environment awareness for Padubidri Blue Flag beach staff

Training on Sea Turtle and Environment awareness for Padubidri Blue Flag beach staff

It was a special occasion when Mr. Rakesh Soans (President, FSL India) was invited to conduct a Sea Turtle and Environmental awareness training on 26th November, 2020 for 45 staff members of Padubidri Blue Flag beach with the cooperation of Udupi tourism at Padubidri endpoint beach. The Blue Flag is a certification by the Denmark based non-profit Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) that a beach, marina, or sustainable boating tourism operator meets its standards. Padubidri beach in Karntaka is one the eight Indian beaches,…

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12000 kg Footwear on 200 m Beach Stretch: Times of India, Mangaluru – 13th June 2020

12000 kg Footwear on 200 m Beach Stretch: Times of India, Mangaluru – 13th June 2020

Concerned about the environmental impact of the rise in plastic waste at Kodi beach, a few like-minded people from Kundapura led by Bharat Bangera got together in 2018, to initiate the Clean Kundapura Project (CKP). Along with a group of local volunteers, CKP organizes regular beach cleaning drives on weekends with the main objective of promoting awareness among visitors to keep our beaches clean. FSL India’s staff and volunteers joined hands with CKP in 2019 and together, we are doing our…

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Holi Festival Celebrated with Distribution of Plants – Udayavani, 11th March 2020

Holi Festival Celebrated with Distribution of Plants – Udayavani, 11th March 2020

As a celebration of the Holi festival at Karvikeri Kundapura, FSL India and the Forest Department distributed plants to more than 50 homes at Karvikeri. At this time, Nirdesh Karada of Gangoli Fisheries Society Corporation, Raja Saranga, FSL India’s Chief Coordinator, Dinesh Saranga, Sandesh S Kharvi, Manjunath Badraji, Viveka s Kharvi, Ramesh Naik, Laxman Patel, Ganesh Kharvi, Sushan Saranga, Prashanth K attended the celebrations.

Environmental Awareness Rally in Mavinakatte Village

Environmental Awareness Rally in Mavinakatte Village

The FSL India HBP team, along with a group of work camp volunteers, worked together and organised a cleanup and awareness rally in Mavinakatte village. On 3rd March 2020, in the morning, a group of children from 4th-7th Standards from Government Middle Primary School, Mavinakatte gathered and talked about the climate change and global warming that is happening in the globe at the moment. After the discussion, they came as a group, joined with the FSL India volunteers and collected…

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We made the people to think through our paintings!

We made the people to think through our paintings!

In the month of February, volunteers from FSL India’s Home Based Projects have done awareness painting on 2 walls in front of Kandloor Primary School, with environmental messages about recycling and 4 smaller visualisations of different ecosystems in Nempu School. Our main goal of the pictures is to increase awareness about topics of sustainability and how the people passing by can have a positive effect in their everyday life. We had drawn one more awareness message painting in Navunda Badakere…

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