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A Volunteer’s diary – Mysore through Spanish eyes: Work Camp with Teens

A Volunteer’s diary – Mysore through Spanish eyes: Work Camp with Teens

Day 1/ July the 5th : We began this diary from the second (and last) plane to India. We’ve done scale in Dubai, because there is no straight flight from Madrid to Bangalore. This journey to India is strange for ourselves, we feel an emotional mixing: a bit of uncertainty, passion and joy. The flight from Madrid to Dubai took 7 hours approximately and the next one to the 5th largest Indian city took 3 1/2 more hours. It seems…

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AIPC Pandora meets FSL-India!

AIPC Pandora meets FSL-India!

From the 30th of June to the 20th of July, a team of 6 teens from Spain arrived in Bangalore, and started their summer camp journey with FSL-India. The teen group, composed of Paul, Rosa, Martha, Pablo, Manuel and Raquel along with FSL-India’s Manjesh, delved deep into Indian life, with tasting the Indian dishes, riding in the local transport and experiencing the typical Indian lifestyle. Right from the very beginning, the group had a very positive attitude towards Indian life…

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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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Changing society one step at a time at SRISTI village – Peer Poremba, Germany

Changing society one step at a time at SRISTI village – Peer Poremba, Germany

My name is Peer, I am from Germany and currently working in Sristi village as a 11-months volunteer with the “Weltwärts”program. I am living with my friend and co-long term volunteer Bjoern and other volunteers together in the so- called “Orange House”, not only experiencing the Indian culture, but many others from all around the world. It is amazing to get to know so many people from different continents, cooking together and playing games. Our accommodation is just 4 kms…

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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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Banana Circle Implementation at Mavinakatte Primary School

Banana Circle Implementation at Mavinakatte Primary School

During the morning of 19th of February, FSL-India implemented 2 banana circles at Mavinakatte Government Primary School. This task was carried out by some of FSL-India’s volunteers – Jan, Florian, Anna and Carlota, as well as Manjesh and Manju – FSL-India’s staff. The team could count on the help and support of the school staff, as well as the huge involvement of some students. The choice to implement a banana circle is because it follows a permaculture design. Permaculture is…

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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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Intoducing Azolla to the Rural Community

Intoducing Azolla to the Rural Community

On Friday, the 11th of January 2019, all the volunteers of  FSL-India’s Home base Projects -Sustainable Agriculture, Environment Education as well as  the Youth Development, joined together to build an Azolla pool. Azolla is a water plant that lives on the surface of the water, and is able to reproduce very quickly, even under changing or challenging circumstances.  That, plus the fact that Azolla is very rich in protein and other nutrients makes it a perfect plant to grow when…

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Internship at CEL, Kundapur – Ujwal & Vikas, Delhi

Internship at CEL, Kundapur – Ujwal & Vikas, Delhi

We are 2 Law students, Ujjwal and Vikas, from Delhi, pursuing BA LLB (Hons). We came to FSL-India for an internship based on some major social issues that we wanted to work on. Being law students, we have always identified the areas that need urgent care and support for community welfare and development. This is one of the major aims of FSL-India – Community Development. We worked in the organization for 2 months and fulfilled our purpose to a certain…

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Azolla Training at CEL, Kundapur

Azolla Training at CEL, Kundapur

Greetings from FSL-India’s Centre for Experiential Living, Kundapur! As part of our training goal of empowering and educating all our staff and volunteers, we had a new training this month, conducted by Mr. C. Doreswamy, our Joint Director. As agriculture plays an important role in rural areas (like the area where CEL is located), finding new ways of enabling the local community to make food production more sustainable can have a huge, beneficial impact on the local environment, as well…

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