Antonin an FSL India Volunteers Speaks on Mantra of Harvesting Everyday

Harvesting everyday could be the mantra of Water Literacy Foundation (WLF) where we are placed as volunteers to work on water issues. Based in Bangalore, this organisation is specialized in addressing water problems through efforts like rainwater harvesting.

Rainwater harvesting is a new concept for us as foreigner volunteers. We did not have experienced of rainwater harvesting in our home country. Indeed water problems and issues largely vary from country to country. In the western countries there are instances of river pollution, green tides that invades of seaweeds causing environmental hazard. India is also not free from water pollution issues. However, rainwater harvesting is one of such viable options to address scarcity of water and prevent water pollution as India receives adequate rainfall.

Rainwater harvesting systems involve usually three elements. One place to collect water, usually a rooftop or a field of a farmer, a filter to remove dust, leafs and other waste, and last but not least, a tank that is enough to have water for all the dry season. A genius idea is to use the ground as a huge tank and refill it thanks to a bore well.

As volunteers our work is mainly to find what to do. Create our tasks and take initiatives are very important for us to work as a team. Thus, we have liberty in this project and not just the timetable. The advantage is that we can be proud of what we do, seeing it as our own work. The other side of the coin is that sometimes, it is hard to be motivated. As a result there has been week when nothing has been done and weeks full of activity.

Antonin for the water warrior team aka Johan Jacob, Marcin and I.

In early March 2012, FSL India received another batch of 9 new volunteers from 4 countries for long-term volunteering. Prior to the departure and be placed in different projects, FSL India organised a week-long orientation for new volunteers in Bangalore and Kundapur. Six volunteers underwent orientation at and three were given orientation at Kundapur between 5^th and 9^th March 2012. Volunteers were welcomed by FSL India team with Garlands of Jasmine, Vermilion Tilak marks on the forehead and Aarathi.

Sessions were facilitated to give input on various topics. Introduction about FSL India and its work, Indian life style, roles and responsibilities of the volunteers, expectations and fears among the volunteers, setting up aims and objectives and conflict management were the major topics dealt with. Volunteers had the opportunity to learn Kannada Language and during evening hour sessions were organised to introduce volunteers on Indian culture. Volunteers also interacted with the local community as part of inter-cultural learning and experience sharing.

Volunteers also had the chance to write a self-addressed letter so as to see at the end of their stay and make comparative analysis between how the situation was in the beginning and how it will be when they complete their assignment. Host Family Tea Party, Project introduction and project visit were organised during the orientation. Final Talk was also organised to share their thoughts with the staff. All the volunteers actively participated in the program. Following is the list of volunteers who participated in the orientation:

1. Delia Christel Hildegard Mather from Germany
2. Franziska Greiser from Germany
3. Jonas Johannes Herrmann from Germany
4. Mustafa Akguen from Germany
5. Valentina Becker from Germany
6. Christian Jens Weinrich from Germany
7. Katie Stickney from United States of America
8. Johann Pouzineau from France
9. Romano Carlo from Italy

It is an occasion to celebrate women’s spirit and their role in the society. It is time to honor the struggle, the tireless hard work and contribution of all women in the world and acknowledge their freedom, rights, and recognition. It is the day to pay a tribute to the women.

International Women’s Day which is celebrated on 8^th March every year is an occasion marked by women’s groups around the world. Although this date was commemorated at the United Nations since 1975, it has been observed globally on various themes and women issues. Interestingly it was the first-time experience for the women of Irunkattukottai village in Sriperumbudur district of Tamil Nadu to celebrate International Women’s Day. Organised by FSL India – Chennai Facility team, the women, children and community people for the first time in the history participated in International Women’s Day Celebration on 8^th March 2012.

Women Empowerment was the theme of International Women’s Day Celebration. Although it was celebrative event, it was also an occasion for the women and community people to come together and look back to a tradition of decades of struggle for equality, justice, peace and development.

Mr. Sridhar from HYUNDAI graced the occasion as Chief Guest of the Women’s Day Celebration. The program started at 6.30 p.m. with honing the Chief Guest. Mrs. Jhansirani, Balaji Village President, Mrs. Stella Mercy the School Head Mistress, Mrs. Lakshmi the Village Health Nurse, Manager of MOBIS and Mr. Shiva Kumar the Vice-chairman of Sriperumbudur graced the occasion as guests of honour. The program started with lighting the lamp followed by welcome address by the School Headmistress. Members of Self-help Group enacted a skit highlighting the importance of women empowerment, education, benefits of SHG, and water and sanitation issues. The School Children performed dance on this auspicious occasion.

The Chief Guest spoke about the importance micro-credit for women to enhance the socio-economic status. In his speech he emphasized the important of use of toilet, benefits of safe disposition of garbage and upcoming activities from Hyundai. The Village President distributed the gifts and gave away prizes to the women representatives and animators of Self-help Groups. The Panchayat leaders, village development committee and SHG members expressed appreciation and gratitude to FSL India for organising the program. The program was concluded with a vote of thanks by a women representative of Self-help Group.

I want to describe how much I enjoy with the children and my stay in the project

My name is Dennis Jan. I am an FSL India volunteer from Germany sponsored by BMZ through AFS-Germany. Since the 7^th August 2011, I have been working as a teacher in the project “DEED – Development through education”. The main target of the project is to visit the tribal community in the area and search for orphan children and children from very poor families who have problems and cannot take care of their children. DEED takes these children to their school to provide them with all they need and give them education. Otherwise they would not have anybody to care of them or have to do very hard work even in a very young age. The children study English, Mathematics, Geography and do some creative activities like drawing, singing, origami and crafting with the volunteers. The Kannada teachers teach the Children Kannada, Social studies, History, Mathematics, Environmental studies, science and they also sing songs and do craft activities.

During the first two months of my work in the project we were four volunteers, two Kannada teacher and around 25 children. The four volunteers were Camilla, Haruka, Julian and I. Camilla was the most experienced volunteer at this time and basically decided what to teach and how to teach. I was not really happy with the way and the content we taught but during that time it was difficult for me to take the class. I had problems to get adjusted with India and I had problems with my host family too. Therefore, I decided to observe the first two months and get adjusted with everything before I really change things.

After my first two months, Julian and I decided to change the way of teaching in the project. We started to speak more with the children, read them children books, watched children movies in English, let them speak more in English and never gave them the full answer so that they would think more. The idea is to get them used to the English language so that they learn it naturally. After a while we could figure out that we have to give the children more words before we teach them how to speak sentence and then we had this great idea to make pictures of the movies. We kept watching and gave them new vocabularies to learn. It is incredible how fast they could memorize these vocabularies. During that time we also decided to teach them mathematics too, because we thought that it is good for the children, if they get mathematics problems also in another way so that they learn how to handle with numbers better and they learn how the numbers are called in English. Since November we also taught them how to read English. If they learn how to read English they will have the ability to read which is great by itself but besides this they would understand the grammar of the language better, they will memorize words much faster and I felt that they get much more interested in learning the language.

In February, almost after 7 months of my stay, the children made a great progress. When I arrived, some of the small children had almost no knowledge about the alphabet and had problems to write the English letters. The bigger children were not able to read a single word or to spell correctly. But now all of them can identify each letter of the small and the capital ABC. They can copy whole sentences from the board without any mistake and in a decent handwriting. Some of them can read whole sentences. They have adequate knowledge of words and understand almost everything I say to them. Some of them speak whole sentence and everybody can speak at least a little bit. They learned a lot about the Indian geography and start to identify the continents and they can identify the origin countries of the volunteers and finally they improved a lot in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

At the end of this article I want to describe how much I enjoy with the children and my stay in the project. I remember at the beginning of my stay they looked all the same to me and it took me one month to learn all the names. But after a while I learned a lot about the children’s character and I started to see each kid as an individual. Everybody of them has his own humor, some are very motivated in class and some need to be pushed more to get interested. Some learn quickly and some need more practice but what they have in common is that they are happy in the project. They are all like brothers and sisters and take care of each other. They like the adults in the project and they all enjoy the lessons even if they have some days when they don’t want it. For me personal, I really enjoy it to take the class and spend some time with the children. They are always full of energy and make jokes during the classes and seem to be always happy which makes me happy too. To take the classes with these children is really not a work at all. They also taught me a lot about children in general. Because of teaching them I know now that I really want to become a teacher when I go back to Germany because I have so much fun with it. Sometimes when I have this feeling that I want to go home to Germany because I miss everybody there, I go to the project and spend some time with the kids and then I feel much better every time. They really give me the energy to stay one year in India. I think my stay in India would be much more difficult in another project and if I ever come back to India.

I think that’s all I have to say about my project for now. I hope you enjoyed it and I will write another one at the end of my stay.

Dennis Jan

FSL India Volunteer from Germany

Introduction to Happy Move Global Youth Camp: FSL India has been implementing CSR projects, titled Happy Move Global Youth Volunteers and Model Village (MVP) in Tamil Nadu. FSL India hosted 8^th Happy Move Global Youth Camp for South Korean Volunteers. The program primarily aimed to serve the communities of Sriperumbudur and Kanchipuram districts. It is supported by Hyundai Motors Company (HMC) as part of corporate social responsibility.

Details Regarding 8^th Happy Move Global Youth Camp: FSL India hosted the 8th Happy Move Global Youth Camp for South Korean Volunteers. The program was organized for 26 days in Kancheepuram District between 19th January and 16th February 2012. Altogether 177 Korean volunteers, 40 Hyundai Graduate Engineer Trainees (Indian participants), 18 doctors, 18 nurses, 6 IWO delegates and 10 FSL India staff participated in this camp. These Korean volunteers organise medical camps, health awareness campaign, education and renovation work in schools and villages.

The program was organised in two batches. The 1^st batch started its camp from 19^th to 31^st January 2012 and the camp for 2^nd batch was organised between 4^th and 16^th February 2012. In first batch FSL India covered 9 villages for Medical Camp and 4 villages for Education and Renovation Activities. Whereas the second batch of volunteers covered 9 villages for Medical Camp and 3 villages for Education and Renovation Activity. Altogether 25 village communities have been immensely benefited from 8^th Happy Move Camp.

Food, Accommodation and Conveyance: Throughout the camp India served delicious south Indian dish to the participants. Accommodation for volunteers was organised at Footwear Design and Development Institute (FDDI). On the first day of the camp, FSL India hosted special welcome dinner for the volunteers. They were welcomed with garlands of rose and vermilion tilak was marked on their forehead. The volunteers’ cheeks were besmeared with turmeric talcum powder. Aarathi (light from wicks soaked in ghee and camphor) was performed with a symbolic gesture of welcoming the volunteers as the most honored and respectable guests. Biriyani, Sweet Pongal and Payasam were served during welcome banquet. As the camp started HMI provided refreshment twice in a day and FSL also provided evening refreshment to the volunteers. HMI took the responsibility of organising transportation for pick up and drop from accommodation to project site.

Orientation for Volunteers and Team Leaders: Orientation session was organised by FSL India team headed by Mr. Arun the Program Manager of Chennai Facility. On the first day of the camp all Korean and Indian volunteers gathered at the Conference Hall of FDDI for orientation. All the volunteers introduced themselves. During the orientation FSL Indian team explained about the objective and purpose of the Happy Move Camp and gave instructional information on dress code, safety and security issues, roles and responsibility. FSL India team also organised orientation session for the team leaders of South Korea. The team explained about program schedule, procedure to use tools and equipment, how to avail construction materials, description of activity and about special events like Indian movie, Indo-Korean (INKO) Forum and Workshop, visit to temple, Chennai City, Hyundai Factory etc. The team also explained about communication channel, roles and responsibility of team leaders.

Team Building/INKO forum and Workshop: FSL India organized team building exercise for the volunteers. The volunteers with lots of fun and frolic played many Indian and Korean games. Through this volunteers could interact with Indians. IWO and FSL India team conducted INKO workshop and forum as part of inter-cultural exchange and learning. The Indian volunteers taught on how to make Rangoli, Chapatti, wear Saree and perform Yoga. In return, the Korean volunteers shared about their customs and tradition.

In the INKO forum Indian volunteers asked questions to Korean volunteers on socio-cultural practices, customs and tradition. On the other hand, Korean volunteers also raised numbers of questions to Indian volunteers. The participants enjoyed every bit of moment as it was perfect convergence to experience inter-cultural learning and sharing.

During the INKO workshop, FSL India and IWO team came up with new idea to conduct INKO workshop for the volunteers. Indian volunteers explained about Indian traditional clothes, India dish and how to make Rangoli etc. Similarly the Korean volunteers explained about their traditional clothes, traditional dance and how to eat Korean food with a pair of sticks.

Education and Renovation Activities: To undertake education and renovation activities, FSL India team made good arrangement in consultation with school headmasters, teachers and local community. As the camp started the community people welcomed the volunteers ceremoniously. The volunteers learnt a lot about Indian culture by interacting with school children and local people. Under education and renovation activities, volunteers did lots of work in the villages. Construction of toilets, tree plantation by road side, building garbage bins, construction of clean kitchen for needy people and prepare nutrition garden for BPL families were the major initiatives. Besides, the volunteers participated in teaching school children health and hygiene, Basic English, creative learning, Maths etc. Children learnt a lot and enjoyed with international volunteers. The volunteers also painted on wall spreading messages on personal hygiene, disadvantages of open defecation, need for environment cleanliness, safe drinking water etc. They also drew pictures of national leaders, national animals and national flowers and painted blackboards in the local schools.

Medical Camp and Renovation: Medical Camps were conducted in 10 villages in and around Hyundai Motors, in Kancheepuram. 27 Korean volunteers, 9 Korean doctors and 9 Indian nurses facilitated medical camp. In second batch also 9 Korean doctors, 9 Indian nurses and 25 Korean volunteers facilitated medical camps. While in the first batch of medical camps a total 1059 patients from 5 villages were treated for various kinds of illness, during the 2^nd batch a total of 1281 patients received healthcare service and treatment. The volunteers also conducted health and hygiene sessions for school children. During the camp for the first batch a total of 187 boys and 209 girls from five schools benefitted from health and hygiene sessions. During the second batch a total of 1227 school children (637 boys and 590 girls) from five schools participated in health and hygiene sessions. Children were taught about hand wash techniques, painting on the wall, fruit/ vegetable card game etc.

Special Program: In Pennalur village, in addition to health and hygiene sessions and renovation work, the volunteers also participated in local community home visit by which they could learn about Indian culture, the way of living, Indian traditional food and exchanged Korean culture with the local people. During the home visit, the volunteers created awareness on the urgency of energy conservation and scarce resource like water. Volunteers paid visited to Kanchi Kamatchi and Egamparanatheshwara temples as part of inter-cultural exchange. Volunteers also had a chance to visit Chennai Spencer Plaza for shopping.

Visit to Hyundai Company and Production Unit: All the volunteers were invited to HMI by Korean officials for the CSR inaugural ceremony at Hyundai Factory. In this program Hyundai Company donated furniture and computers to government schools. Having attended this program volunteers visited Hyundai factory and production unit and learnt about various aspects of manufacturing of Hyundai Motor Car.

Visit by IWO President: Mr. Jinshu, the President of IWO, South Korea paid a visit to 8^th Happy Move Camp. During his visit to FSL India, he made an on-the-spot assessment of all EDRN program and Medical camps organised in the villages. He was quite impressed the way program activities were facilitated. He spent good deal of time in interacting with community people, FSL India team and with Indian and Korean volunteers.

Screening of Tamil Movie: FSL India screened a Tamil movie “Vennila Kabadi Kuzhu” which depicts the importance of ‘Kabadi” which is one of the traditional games of India. It also gives message about friendship, love and affection, importance agriculture and education. All Korean and Indian volunteers enjoyed watching the movie. The Indian volunteers translated the dialogue into English and made Korean volunteers understand.

Intercultural Program: Inter-culture learning is one of the special programs facilitated during Happy Move Camp. All Korean and Indian volunteers, on the last day of the camp performed cultural program in their project site allowing the local community and school children learnt about Korean culture. Each team performed more than five events at the project. The school children also participated and performed three cultural events.

Farewell Party: FLS India organised a farewell party at Research and Development Center of Hyundai Factory. Valedictory dinner was hosted where volunteers were served with special Korean Dish. After the dinner volunteers were honored with certificates. Feedback session was also organised where volunteers, IWO, FSL India, HMI and HMC participants expressed their views and opinions regarding the camp activities. The farewell party came to and with a cultural program performed by the volunteers.

A total of 26 children from 3 tent schools such as Navayuga, Marvante and Kumbhashi; visited Murdeswara temple on 7^th February as part of education trip and excursion. Children played varieties of games on the beach and enjoyed every bit of moment. They had lunch at Murdeswara temple on sea. While enjoying the beauty of the sea, they too played jumping and diving into the sea against moderately strong web and tide. For many children it was a first time experience to participate in an excursion.

On another trip the long term volunteers organised a visit for 12 children from Navayuga to St. Mary’s Island. Sailing by a boat across the backwaters and periphery of the sea, was an exciting experience for children. Certainly it was a first time visit to an Island. Parents of two children of tent school also participated in this trip. Indeed the event left an indelible mark in the hearts and minds of the children, volunteers and HBP team as well.

Donation to Baptist Welfare Society: Louise Rutten, an FSL India Volunteer of Netherlands mobilised funds for Baptist Welfare Society which runs a school for children of local slum in Gangawathi. In the beginning when Louise Rutten was placed at this project, there were about 10 children between 4 and 5 years old. On her placement Louise Rutten could feel the need of giving individual attention to each child. By singing songs, teaching dance or teaching lesson in playful way, she was able to make the children smile and happy for a moment. By this she could make an actual impact. She later realized that Baptist Welfare Society could not initiate many activities for children due to lack of funds. The organisation wanted to start an orphanage and full-fledged day care centre for street and slum children. Louise took initiative to raise fund from her parents and friends. She could mobilise 1500 Euros for Baptist Welfare Society and INR 5000 for Karunya Orphanage at Hospet.

Fund Mobilised for De Mercede Orphanage: Lea Knopf and Astrid Janbell raised funds for Mercede Orphanage. The orphanage was initiated in 1943 with an aim to provide Education and Rehabilitation for the poor and socially disadvantageous children. When Astrid Janbell and Lea Knopf worked at Mercede Orphanage, there were 54 children hailing from the most disadvantaged community in Mangalore. Both the volunteers taught English to children, supervised their daily activities supporting in house-keeping such as cooking, laundry, cleaning, and create homely environment. During Christmas Astrid and Lea asked their friends and family to contribute some as Christmas Gift to children. Astrid’s mother who is teacher in Sweden and Lea’s parents who work in a Bank in Germany generously contributed. Lea and Astrid were able to mobilise INR 135,000 from their parents and friends. They did Christmas shopping and purchased lots games sports items, clothes, school bags, shoes, toys, stationeries, story books etc. and presented to the children. They organized a day trip to the zoo and water park for all the children. Eventually the surplus amount INR 60,000, they donated for renovation of the orphanage and construction of toilets which were in dilapidated condition.

Financial Contribution by Work Camp Volunteer to Karunya Orphanage: Ms. Carolyn House from USA who participated in a Work Camp hosted by FSL India way back in 2007 made a donation $ 200 to Karunya Orphanage in Hospet. Indeed with a sense of nostalgia she contacted Mr. Daya, the Coordinator of LTV Program who was her team leader during 2007 Work Camp in Kundapur. Carolyn expressed her willingness to contribute $ 200 for children’s cause. Mr. Daya recommended Carolyn to transfer the amount to Karunya Orphanage. The amount will be used to purchase water purifier for 27 children in the orphanage. The children will have access to clean and safe drinking water.

The management and staff of FSL India would like to place in record deep sense gratitude and extend heartfelt thanks to the volunteers for the self-less service and efforts to raise funds for the projects.

This is a success story and the journey of Ajay who has been graduated from the Tent School run by FSL India at Kundapur under the Home Based Project. This will certainly go on the record and bear a living testimony and inspiration to many children from migrant community who have been deprived of the basic education. Now Ajay has been enrolled in the regular school, thanks to the efforts of HBP team of FSL India and the long term volunteers.

According to Grayson Kirk “The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his/her life to oneself and others.” Inspired by this dictum and respecting children’s right to education, FSL India started Tent School Project in Kundapur so as to bring about change in the life of children from the migrant community who come to Kundapur in search of job and livelihood opportunities.

Ajay was a school dropout who studied at the Tent School of FSL India at Kumbhashi. His parents migrated from Andhra Pradesh for road construction work. HBP Team of FSL India and the long term volunteers on their visit to the migrant community found him interested in education. Immediately he was enrolled in the tent school. Active and agile, Ajay was found to be a quick-learner. He actively participated in all the sessions. Having observed his interest for education, the HBP team and long term volunteers discussed with his parents and convinced them to get him enrolled in the regular school.

The HBP team and long term volunteers discussed with the Headmaster of the Primary School at Kumbhashi who at once admitted him to the school. Now Ajay is in IV class and exceptionally doing well in his studies. His parents too are very happy at Ajay’s academic performance.

Field services and inter-cultural learning are the two phases of the development agenda promoted by FSL India where volunteerism is the central theme of operational strategy. FSL India provides opportunities to local and global youth and enables them to work in different cultural contexts appreciating inter-cultural learning. FSL India mobilizes about 1300 youth annually from across the world with support of international and local partners for long-term and mid-term volunteering program. To translate the vision into action FSL India collaborates with more than hundred organisations across the country and facilitates placement of volunteers in various projects. In order to strengthen the partnership and reinforce the development agenda, FSL India organised Contact Person Workshop for Bangalore and Kundapura zone on 24^th February 2012.

With an objective of strengthening the partnership among FSL India, Volunteers, Host Organisations and Host Family the workshop was conducted with a view to equipping the contact persons to address issues and challenges while hosting international volunteers for development projects. For the contact persons of Bangalore the workshop was organised at Vishranthi Nilaya. A total of seventeen contact persons from nine organisation participated in the workshop. Simultaneously the workshop was also organised at Hotel Sharon, Kundapur for the Contact Persons of Kundapur zone where 22 contact persons from 10 organisations participated. While a three-member team of FSL India facilitated the workshop at Bangalore, a four-member team led by Mr. Doreswamy, the Joint Director facilitated the workshop at Kundapur.

The workshop started with a brief input on FSL India and its development program through volunteering service. There was a special input on inter-cultural learning. To have a common understanding about culture and importance of inter-cultural learning, the participants were made to understand about generalised and stereotype behaviours, high versus low context messages and power distance that many a times influence the inter-cultural learning and inter-cultural misinterpretation. The other important topics dealt with are: expectation and needs of contact persons/host organisations, volunteers and FSL India, feedback of volunteers for host organisations and vice versa, developing, implementing and monitoring of work schedule for the volunteers, sharing of impact created through volunteers contribution, defining roles and responsibility of FSL India, volunteers and host organisations and mentoring of volunteers.

All these input led to a lively discussion between the facilitators and the contact persons/participants to create an improved working condition for the volunteers. The workshop was very interactive. The representatives of host organisations actively participated in the discussion and articulated their concerns and raised number of issues which can be mutually resolved in the days to come.

FSL India has been implementing CSR projects, titled Happy Move Global Youth Volunteers and Model Village (MVP) in Tamil Nadu. FSL India is currently hosing 8^th Happy Move Global Youth Camp for South Korean Volunteers. The program is intended to serve the communities of Sriperumbudur and Kanchipuram districts. It supported by Hyundai Motors Company (HMC) as part of corporate social responsibility so as to establish closer ties with the local communities.

Under the ‘Happy Move Global Youth Volunteers’ program, HMC, annually South Korea sends a total of 500 volunteers to FSL India. In addition they also send 20 Korean doctors and specialists. These Korean volunteers organise medical camps, health awareness campaign, education and renovation work in schools and villages.

FSL India hosted the Second Batch of 8th Happy Move Global Youth Camp in Chennai which started on 4^th February 2012 and concluded 16^th February 2012. Totally 88 Korean volunteers, 18 Hyundai Graduate Engineer Trainees (Indian participants), 9 nurses and ten-member team of FSL India participated. All together 125 volunteers participated in this global event.

The program was started with Indian traditional inauguration and welcome by the FSL India team headed by Mr. Arun the Manger of Chennai Facility Centre. After the formal inauguration the team facilitated orientation for the volunteers about the camp and conducted team building exercise at Footwear Design and Development Institute (FDDI). From 6^th February onwards the volunteers started to work on renovation and education activities in three villages. One team of volunteers along with the doctors conducted medical camp in seven villages that are around Hyundai Motor India in Sriperumbudur block of Kancheepuram District.

The volunteers undertook education and renovation activities in three villages such at Puduperu, Pennalur and Kattrampakkam. Medical and health camps were organised in eight villages such as Ayyappanthangal, Subathra Nagar, Kancheepuram, Pondur, Thirumazhisai, Maduramangalam and Thandalam. Besides, the following special events were organised by FSL India team during the Happy Move Global Youth Camp.

Welcome Dinner: Indian traditional welcome with offering of jasmine flowers/garlands, besmearing of vermilion and Chandan paste on forehead and served the most favored and popular Indian dish such as Biriyani and sweet Pongal.

Team Building: FSL India team facilitated team building exercise by which the global volunteers played many Indian and Korean games. The volunteers could interact and built relationship with Indian volunteers.

INKO (Indo-Korean) Workshop and Forum: In this workshop, the Indian team conducted inter-cultural exchange between Korean and Indian volunteer. In this cultural event the Indian volunteers taught the Korean volunteers on how to make Rangoli, Chapatti, wear Saree and practice Yoga.

Screening of India Movie: FSL India team screened Indian movies highlighting Indian cultural, Indian love, affection as well as Indian traditional game Kabadi.

Visit to Kancheepuram and Chennai: Volunteers also visited many temples in Chennai and Kancheepuram and enjoyed every bit of moment as for many it was the first experience. They also visited Spencer Plaza in to Chennai and purchased herbal products, sweets and Indian clothes.