In the month of February, FSL hosted 6 work camps in different parts of India. Five of the work camps were in South India: – Yercaud, Pondicherry, Kundapur, Kannur and Mysore. One was in Kolkota in North Eastern. India. Sixty-four volunteers from seventeen different countries took part in these work camps. In Yercaud, 3 volunteers [...]
Place: Bangalore Theme: Social /Kids Number of volunteers: 6 (S. Korea, Netherlands and Canada) The volunteers taught children some general English and science; they also interacted with them to teach them songs, dances and games. They cleaned and painted the classrooms. After that they did educational drawing in the walls like solar system, organs of [...]
Place: Darjeeling. Theme: Social / Culture Number of volunteers; 5 (Germany, S. Korea, France and Taiwan) This is one of the first work camps in Darjeeling. The volunteers had activities with children like singing songs, dancing and playing games of different countries. They also did educational drawing in the village school. They learnt about Indian [...]
Place: Kundapur. Theme: Sea Turtle Conservation/Environment Number of Volunteers: 2(Denmark and Switzerland) The volunteers had very interesting activities: building turtle information centre on the beach cleaned the beach at Kodi and Mavavante, making educational paintings in Hosadu School, and having puppet shows for children. Most of the activities were about sea turtle awareness. They [...]
Place: Coorg. Theme: Tribal/Kids Number of volunteers: 3 (Italy and S. Korea) The volunteers painted the walls with educational pictures- ecological and hygiene awareness. The volunteers interacted with tribal children and had activities like singing songs and played games of different countries. They visited the tribal village and interacted with them. Volunteers made presentations about [...]
Place: Yercaud. Theme: Tribal/kids/Environment Number of volunteers: 5(France, Japan and UK) In this work camp the volunteers painted the blackboards, book shelves and walls of the school. They also worked in the garden. They did some activities with the children like singing songs and playing games of different countries. Volunteers made presentations about their culture [...]
Four volunteers from South Korea, France and Germany curiously arrived in India to help protecting the sea turtles. Hong, Cho, Sebastien and Manuela (me). Then the biggest question was, how to do this? Together, we did many activities to build awareness in the local fisherman community and their families: performing a puppet show explaining the [...]
Successful completion of 5th Korean happy move camp – appreciation letter by Mr. MOHAN Panchayat President and Mr. SEKAR 3rd ward member of Kattarampakkam Panchayat, Sriperumpudur block – CHENNAI Kattarampakkam Panchayat President Mr. MOHAN and Sugamtharumpedu 3rd ward member Mr. SEKAR, invited FSL India and gave us their letters of thanks and appreciation for 5th [...]
A case study from Chennai facility about – My proud on – Rural Flush-out Leach Pit – Super Structure Toilet; My name is N. Panchatchram-76, I have 6 sons, all are got married, out of them 4 are living with me as joined family. My occupation was Blacksmith and no more I am working because [...]
