FSL-India has placed Miss Kusaka Miyako from Japan at Sneha Care Home. The Sneha Care Home primarily focuses on empowering and educating the HIV/AIDS infected children and the children who are orphans children with single parent. The project is running a home for the children. The children are within the age group of 4 to 12 years.
Yoga / Ayurveda / Culture (Kerala – 2nd to 22nd July -2012) Number of Volunteers: 19 Camp Activities: Volunteers attended Yoga Class every day from 4.30 to 6.30 p.m. They were also involved with painting and conducting games with the children in Special school. The special attraction of the camp was the sessions on Ayurveda for volunteers. Volunteers also engaged in activities at the Dayaniketan Orphanage. They had activities with the kids of the Marian Centre for the mentally challenged. …
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…
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…
In November 1997, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 2001 as the International Year of Volunteers (IYV). United Nations Volunteers (UNV) was designated as the international focal point. With its main objectives of increased recognition, facilitation, networking and promotion of volunteering, IYV provided a unique opportunity to highlight the achievements of millions of volunteers worldwide and encouraged more people to engage in volunteer activity. The idea for IYV came out from deliberations among several major international NGOs in the early…