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One thing is clear by now: To leave after the 11 months won’t be easy – Julia Sailer & Svenja Luise Dressler

One thing is clear by now: To leave after the 11 months won’t be easy – Julia Sailer & Svenja Luise Dressler

El-Shaddai is a Children’s Home outside of Chennai. Here we, Svenja and Julia, work for 11 months as volunteers, with 34 children. Now, the time is already half gone and we had a great time till now. Usually, we support the children with their daily routine like getting ready for school. Our main part, where we really can help the most is the study time. Every school day, there is 1 1/2 hour’s time to do homework and study for…

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Winter Camp at CEL, Kundapur

Winter Camp at CEL, Kundapur

From 14th-16th of October, about 24 Indian children decided to spend a part of their holidays at the Winter Camp of FSL-India’s Centre for Experiential Living (CEL), Kundapur. Compared to our Adventure Camps, the Winter Camp was aimed not only at having a fun time, but also at education. The children came every morning, participated in all the different activities, got lunch and left around 4 pm. To wake them up, every day started with energisers. Right from the beginning,…

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Farming, Volunteers and FSL-India 2017-18: Rahul Dayalu, Project Head, Shri Gurumahanteshwara – Sustainable Agriculture

Farming, Volunteers and FSL-India 2017-18: Rahul Dayalu, Project Head, Shri Gurumahanteshwara – Sustainable Agriculture

Our association with FSL-India has grown further in 2017 and 2018. FSL-India and their volunteers have already become an integral part of our project. The farm was new and mostly barren in 2016-2017. There was a lot of work that happened in that period, right from land preparation to the plantation of crops, putting fencing, building a farmhouse, installing our drip irrigation system, and so on. The village school management, teachers and students were not used to foreigners. I was…

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Contribution of FSL-India’s volunteers to Shri Gurumahanteshwara Sustainable Agriculture Project – Rahul Dayalu

Contribution of FSL-India’s volunteers to Shri Gurumahanteshwara Sustainable Agriculture Project – Rahul Dayalu

I am Rahul Dayalu, an IT engineer turned farmer and writer. I have been associated with FSL-India to host volunteers in our project since November, 2016. I was looking at pictures of our project just received from Miriam, a volunteer from FSL-India, who worked with us for few months. I cannot believe it’s been more than a year we started this project in my village S Hoskote near Mysore, Karnataka, India. Those photos speak more than words on our initial…

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Down to the Grassroots: WC-827, Kundapur

Down to the Grassroots: WC-827, Kundapur

FSL-India’s work camp WC-827 was held for 2 weeks, starting from 21st January 2019 and ending with the final evaluation on 3rd February 2019. The theme was Sustainable Agriculture/ Culture/ Environment. The team consisted of Andrea Granata from Italy, Seoyeon Kim and Jeon Hui Yeon from South Korea. The team followed the work camp schedule for 2 weeks, and made the camp successful. First of all, we went to schools for mural painting, helping in teaching Basic English, wall painting,…

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Work Camp 628 – To create a sustainable community and motivate kids to overcome stage fear !!

Work Camp 628 – To create a sustainable community and motivate kids to overcome stage fear !!

FSL-India organized a work camp from 11th-24th September 2017 at our Centre for Experiential Living- Kundapura. The theme of the work camp was Sustainable Agriculture, Yoga, Culture & Kids. During the first week of the camp, there was a warm Indian welcoming ceremony with our field staff from the centre. The Centre promotes a field-based, non-formal educational learning, community stay, involving agricultural activities and experiential learning methods. FSL-India’s Dinesh explained about the project and schedule. 3 volunteers participated in this…

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