During January and February 2012, FSL-India organised work camp in Chennai for South-Korean volunteers. Puduperu is one of the villages where around 30 Korean volunteers participated in varieties of activities with school children and renovated the school building.

 

During the camp volunteers were extremely glad and impressed by children’s affectionate gestures, communication, cultural exposure, food and so on.  Children also invited the Korean volunteers to their homes and shared with them about traditional practices and socio-cultural values. Recently, with a sense of nostalgia and memories afresh of inter-cultural learning, Miss Jinsol Kim, one of the South-Korean volunteers wrote a letter to Niranjan a school boy of Puduperu village. What is important to note here is that, it is not only Niranjan but also we can see the impact of inter-cultural learning among many school going children and international volunteers. Today few children in the village could speak few words in Korean language. The school children keep enquiring about the wellbeing Korean volunteers and interested to know when the volunteers will pay a visit to the school again. Here is the letter of Miss Jinsol Kim to Niranjan.