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Eco Brick Bench at FSL-India’s CEL! – A Case Study

Eco Brick Bench at FSL-India’s CEL! – A Case Study

In March 2019, FSL-India’s volunteers at the Centre for Experiential Living, Kundapur started to build an Eco Bench. Plastic was collected from nearby shops and local people in order to reuse it for the Eco Bricks. The Eco Brick is a plastic bottle filled with around 300 grams of plastic garbage (milk/snacks packets, plastic bags, chips/candy and cookie wrappers, etc), in order to be strong and solid as a brick. The process of filling the Eco Bricks started with the…

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Enriching experiences I made here – Sophie Elisabeth, Germany: Women’s Development Trust – Women Empowerment

Enriching experiences I made here – Sophie Elisabeth, Germany: Women’s Development Trust – Women Empowerment

My name is Sophie. I’m a volunteer from Germany and I live in Tamil Nadu since the last 10 months. I’m working in the NGO Servo Trust, which is a Women Empowerment Project from FSL-India. Servo Trust is working together with the Forest Department of this district, in the Tamil Nadu Bio-Diversity Green Project. It’s an environment program financed by JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency)  and the government of Tamil Nadu, with the aim of afforestation. Every year, many hundred…

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