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My Experience in India: Lina Schumann, Germany – Regular Teaching

My Experience in India: Lina Schumann, Germany – Regular Teaching

Last April, I arrived in India and started working with FSL. In total, I’m staying for 11 months. My project is a Government Primary School at Mavinakatte, where I teach the children mainly from 1st to 5th standard. In general, I interact with the children and encourage them to speak English through language games, simple tasks, learning vocabulary, dancing and singing. I also give computer classes and training in correct spelling with the older children. In the beginning, the work…

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My Experiences in India – Miriam Seffers, Germany

My Experiences in India – Miriam Seffers, Germany

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…

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Winter Camp at Varanashi Organic Farms – Miriam Seffers and Selin Yenice, Germany

Winter Camp at Varanashi Organic Farms – Miriam Seffers and Selin Yenice, Germany

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…

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Volunteering at CEL, Kundapur – Niklas Dupont, Long Term Volunteer, Germany

Volunteering at CEL, Kundapur – Niklas Dupont, Long Term Volunteer, Germany

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…

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Our Time at Kundapura! – Linda Pederzolli, Italy & Hanan Aboushakra, Sweden

Our Time at Kundapura! – Linda Pederzolli, Italy & Hanan Aboushakra, Sweden

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…

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Summer Project at De Mercede – May 2019: Ruth Hamschmidt, Germany

Summer Project at De Mercede – May 2019: Ruth Hamschmidt, Germany

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…

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Summer Project at Varanashi Organic Farms – Lina Scholz, Germany

Summer Project at Varanashi Organic Farms – Lina Scholz, Germany

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…

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The Awesome Kundapur Market Experience: Alexander Böhm, PR & Media volunteer, Germany

The Awesome Kundapur Market Experience: Alexander Böhm, PR & Media volunteer, Germany

Why is the Kundapura Market such an awesome experience you should not miss? First of all, because of the people that make this market so awesome. People from all over Karnataka come here every Saturday, the people are super kind and everybody is working together to make this place such a great experience. I felt as a welcomed guest immediately after entering. In the market, you can find so many different fruits and vegetables in a quantity I have never…

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Fund raising for Mavinakatte Kindergarten – Hanan Abou Shakra, Sweden

Fund raising for Mavinakatte Kindergarten – Hanan Abou Shakra, Sweden

My name is Hanan and I am a volunteer from Sweden, with FSL-India. I have been living in India for about 3 months, and I really love being here. I love everything with India, it’s amazing! For the last 3 months, I have been working in a kindergarten. My project is in Mavinakatte. It’s a very small kindergarten, with almost 40 children, 1 teacher and 1 teacher’s assistant. The aim for my work is to teach the children English.  So…

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Cultural Event at Kundapur for the FSL-India Volunteers: Holi Celebration!!

Cultural Event at Kundapur for the FSL-India Volunteers: Holi Celebration!!

On the 22nd of March, 3 FSL-India volunteers Hannan, Linda and Orane had the super occasion to participate in the Cultural Event organized by FSL-India at Kundapura. The Holi Celebration is called also as the Festival of love and colours. It starts every year by ligting up the bonfire the night before the day of Holi and this process symbolises the triumph of good over bad. The volunteers met at 10 am with FSL-India’S Chief Coordiator, Dinesh at the Shri…

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