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The best decision I could make…

The best decision I could make…

        Svenja Melina Opitz, one of our long-term volunteers from Weltwarts AFS Germany has been working at the De Mercede Orphanage since August. She writes to us from the village of Paneer, in Mangalore Taluk, Dakshina Kannada District. Following is a personal account of her experiences.  “Namaskara everybody! India – on the 4th of August I arrived here in the middle of the Monsoon. Actually I was really excited and counted the days before my arrival. And…

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Education, environment and children’s bilateral camp in Bangalore

Education, environment and children’s bilateral camp in Bangalore

        In the month of January 2014, work camp team leader, Manjunath, led a bilateral camp for six volunteers from South Korea. The theme of this work camp was education, environment and children. The volunteers worked in a government school in Bangalore, teaching around 80 children about environment related issues such as pollution and conservation, as well as basic Engish schools, educational drawing and wall painting.                     The…

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My Month in India

My Month in India

My name is Elsa Edling from the cold and small country Sweden and I have just spent a month working as a volunteer in India. I worked in the project Joseph Rural Development Trust (JRDT) in a small village near Chennai and my main assignment was to teach English at the local schools. I signed up as a volunteer at FSL-India who found and placed me in this project.   The orientation week   I met FSL-India staff and their…

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Long Term Volunteers – New Arrivals (September 2012)

Long Term Volunteers – New Arrivals (September 2012)

Volunteerism is the heart of FSL-India’s development effort to promote field services and inter-cultural learning. As usual every month new volunteers across the world joined FSL-India in September 2012. FSL-India received 29 volunteers from six countries for volunteering service. FSL-India organised a week-long orientation for the new volunteers at Hotel Julie-Yo International, Kundapur from 3rd to 8th September 2012. The LTV Program Team Members of FSL-India such as Vaz, Aravind, Deepak, Immanuel, Daya, Nagoor, Godfrey, Anupama, Rubini, Stephen and Nagarathna…

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LTV Get Together – August 2012

LTV Get Together – August 2012

FSL-India organised LTV get-together at two different locations for the long term volunteers on 16th and 17th August 2012. While the LTV Program Team of Bangalore Region organised at Chandrashekar School, Bangalore with the theme Paint the School; Kundapur Region organised the get together at Mundigemane, Madodi, Shivmoga. In Bangalore out of fourteen invited only nine volunteers participated. From Kundapur region ten volunteers participated in the get together. The objectives of the GTG are as follows:   to share their…

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Volunteers Begin their work with Independence Day Celebration

Volunteers Begin their work with Independence Day Celebration

August 15th, when India celebrated its 66th Independence Day, Miss Silvia Franke from Germany and Miss Marion Robert from France arrived to work for teaching project at Irunkattukottai village where FSL-India is currently implementing Model Village Project. This is the first day for volunteers to begin their volunteering work at Model Village Project. They are immensely pleased to join the community to celebrate 66th Independence Day of India. They attended the celebration at the local school and later participated in…

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LTV Get Together June 2012

LTV Get Together June 2012

LTV Get-together for the month of June was organised on 14th and 16th for Kundapur Region and on 18th and 19th for Bangalore Region. It was organised at two different locations. While Kundapur Region organised at Simha Farms, Madodi, Shivmoga district in Karnataka, Bangalore Region organised at Chettikuppam, Pondicherry. Seven volunteers from Kundapur Region and four volunteers from Bangalore Region participated in in the get together.  The LTV team FSL-India facilitated the get-together.   The get together primarily focussed on…

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Long Term Volunteers – New Arrivals in July 2012

Long Term Volunteers – New Arrivals in July 2012

In early July 2012, a group of 14 volunteers from 6 countries arrived FSL- India for long-term volunteering program. FSL-India organised a week-long orientation for volunteers in Bangalore and Kundapur. While twelve volunteers participated in the orientation in Bangalore two were given orientation at Kundapur. The orientation was scheduled from 2nd to 68th July 2012.    FSL-India team cordially welcomed the volunteers with garlands of jasmine, vermilion tilak marks on the forehead and Aarathi. Several sessions were conducted to provide…

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