LTV-Kundapur
I am in India for 3 months and I want to report about my experiences here. My project is to teach English in the Government Higher Primary School, Anagalli. There are only 50 students and 3 other teachers. My daily work starts at 9:30 am and is finished at 3:30 pm. All come together for prayer before the lessons start. After that, I teach Nalli Kalli (1st-3rd Standards) and 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th Standards. We sing English songs, or…
From the 10th-20th October, we worked with 20 German volunteers on Varanashi Organic Farms. Our work was to fertilise different trees: cacao, nutmeg, arecanut and coconut trees. We fed the plants with 45 tons of manure and covered 15 acres with it. We worked in teams of 5-10. So, we split the work in different steps. That was very good and effective. Some people filled the buckets, some drove the trollies with the buckets to the plants and some put…
I arrived here at CEL on 5th August this year, together with around 40 other German volunteers. I was the only one to stay longer than the orientation week. So, I had the chance to get to know the place uninstructed by other foreigners. The Centre for Experiential Living (CEL) is located close (30 minutes) to the town of Kundapura, in the State of Karnataka. It contains a number of dormitories (where people stay during various events like our orientation…
The cultural visit for FSL India’s Long Term Volunteers was held on 11th October 2019 with Miriam, who came in September and worked on the Sea Turtle Conservation project at our Centre for Experiential Living, Kundapur. One of the programmes at FSL India is a cultural visit, where we take our regular volunteers to any cultural and historical places which are located in or around Kundapur. So, in the morning around 8.40 am, we met at the last bus stop…
LTV team, Kundapura organised a Mid Term Evaluation for FSL India’s Long Term Volunteers. The programme was held for 2 days, from 17th and 18th October 2019. In total, 4 volunteers from AFS took part in this evaluation. The MTE was organised at FSL India’s Centre for Experiential Living. The objective of the MTE was to assess the progress of our volunteers, how they are doing in their project and host family, to offer solutions to overcome any hurdles, as…
In the month of September 2019, FSL India hosted 16 Long Term Volunteers from Germany at our CEL (Centre for Experiential Living). The volunteers underwent different practical, theoretical and outdoor sessions for their successful journey in India and actively took part in each session. The sessions included conflict management, roles and responsibilities, culture and Indian life style, safety guidelines, information and project introduction and also, preparation with their coordinators. The roles and responsibilities session started with asking questions on the…
My name is Shoba, there are 4 people in my family – my husband Annappa, my 2 children Ashwath and Ashwith and myself. I work at Asha Karya Kartha, Gulvady. For the last 4 years, my family and I have been hosting volunteers from FSL-India. So far, we have hosted 12 volunteers from different countries. My family and I have greatly benefited from this experience. I learnt to speak English and so did my children. The volunteers and my children…
Hello, I’m Linda and I’m Hanan!!!! Our day starts at 7 o’clock in our host family, when it’s already day. In the morning, we usually wash our clothes, spend time and play with our house siblings and then, after the pooja, we eat breakfast all together. Indian breakfast is different every day: Dosa, Idly, Upittu, Chapati, Poori and more and more tasty dishes. As we are neighbours, we can go everyday together to work. We take the bus near the…
As the summer holidays for the government schools in India last 8 weeks, all the volunteers from FSL-India’s teaching project were sent to a summer project. Paula, Luka, Tabea and I went to an orphanage called De Mercedes orphanage in Deralakatte, near Mangalore. Our tasks were to teach some English or Maths to the children, paint the windows on the roof as well as some cupboards, to stitch the uniforms for the children for the new school year, and to…
During their summer project in April and May, 12 volunteers met at Varanashi Organic Farms. Our working days started with putting out the cocoa to dry and after that, different kinds of work was done. Mainly, they we cleaned the water channels in the cocoa plantations for the rainy season. Fridays were the cocoa pod opening days and later on, in May, we started to prepare the farm for a climbing event called “Psicobloc“. This is a form of solo…