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It’s World Earth Day !!

It’s World Earth Day !!

Here at FSL India – we are always so thankful to our amazing community of volunteers and our enthusiastic staff, for all the efforts they put into creating a better tomorrow! Even the smallest act goes a long way! Remember there is no Planet-B! so as John Denver said, “love the earth as you would love yourself” Here are a few ways that you can help make a difference and contribute to restoring our beautiful planet while staying safe! https://www.almanac.com/content/earth-day-date-activities-history…

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Environmental Awareness Rally in Mavinakatte Village

Environmental Awareness Rally in Mavinakatte Village

The FSL India HBP team, along with a group of work camp volunteers, worked together and organised a cleanup and awareness rally in Mavinakatte village. On 3rd March 2020, in the morning, a group of children from 4th-7th Standards from Government Middle Primary School, Mavinakatte gathered and talked about the climate change and global warming that is happening in the globe at the moment. After the discussion, they came as a group, joined with the FSL India volunteers and collected…

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German donates Dustbin – Udayavani Sudhina, 17th February 2020

German donates Dustbin – Udayavani Sudhina, 17th February 2020

FSL India and Yuva Brigade, Karvikeri jointly conducted an awareness programme for the Karvikeri riverside community on keeping the river clean. Kundapura Municipality area, Karvikeri have decided to place a dustbin at the riverside. FSL India’s volunteer Jan Muhle from Germany has donated the dustbin.

Gopadi Grama Panchayat Celebrates Sankranthi Festival Through Cleaning Event – Vijaya Karnataka, January 2020

Gopadi Grama Panchayat Celebrates Sankranthi Festival Through Cleaning Event – Vijaya Karnataka, January 2020

Gopadi Grama Panchayat lead a Cleaning Event at Gopadi and Koteshwara Highway Road area and Gopadi Village, for the festival of Makara Sankranthi, with the support of Clean Kundapura Project, FSL India-Kundapura, Amala Bharath and Ladies Hostel Koteshwara. At the cleaning event they found many alcohol bottles beside the highway. The volunteers collected all the bottles and exhibited them at the side of the Highway. In this event, totally 150 volunteers pitched in to help. Gopadi Panchayat’s President Saraswathi Putran,Vice…

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Nirvana Beach Festival 2020 – How can we stop plastic pollution?

Nirvana Beach Festival 2020 – How can we stop plastic pollution?

The long stretch of Kodi Beach is not just sand and palm trees; it’s unfortunately, also a lot of plastic. Plastic that is harming wildlife and spoiling what could have been a perfectly beautiful beach. To better this situation, FSL India has partnered with Clean Kundapura Project, who have been arranging weekly beach cleanings regularly. FSL India’s HBP team and our volunteers have participated in the beach cleanings on 40 occasions, where, along with the local community, they have cleared…

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Permaculture at CEL, Kundapur

Permaculture at CEL, Kundapur

Permaculture is a fundamental part of “Sustainable Agriculture” and it is what we have adopted at the “Centre for Experiential Living” (CEL), Kundapur. It is a whole system for providing human needs, using natural resources by maintaining its state of resilience, avoiding the use of limited resources. During December 2019, we reset the organic garden of the Centre using an organic “Synergic” method, based on the respect of the natural cycle, re-use of the resources already existing around the site,…

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Creating Art for Awareness

Creating Art for Awareness

How can we reach out to people, to make them reflect upon their behaviours and gain knowledge about how those behaviours effect the environment? At FSL India, we approach people in many different ways, in school sessions, writing these blog posts, creating activities to involve locals, and also using the media to reach even more people, to name some examples. Displaying messages about a sustainable future on public wall paintings is an artsy way to gain much attention. This week,…

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Climate Justice Campaign

Climate Justice Campaign

On 13th December 2019, on the occasion of ‘Kodi Habba’, The Clean Kundapura Project and FSL India jointly organised an awareness campaign about Anti-Plastic and Sea Turtle Conservation along with the FSL India volunteer’s staff and Clean Kundapura Project volunteers during the Koteshwara festival. The team members of Clean Kundapura Project and FSL India volunteers spread awareness among the festival visitors through distributing flyers and interacting with them. Since many shop keepers used plastics for packing items, we visited shops…

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Street cleaning in Kandlur

Street cleaning in Kandlur

Today’s dirt and ignorance will have to be cleaned up and paid for by tomorrow’s generations. FSL India’s HBP volunteers, staff and school teachers participating in street cleaning with schoolchildren in Kandlur on 13th of December, was an obvious example of that. Seeing schoolchildren climbing down into the trenches alongside of the road, collecting bottles, plastic wrappers, old paper etc. For these particular children, the street cleaning session was faced with enthusiasm. The children were divided into groups, each responsible…

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