My name is Yellappa. I am 12 years old. My father Yemmannurappa is a mason and my mother Gangamma is a labourer. We live in the Baikady Tent Community. My parents came to Kundapur from Katapur to look for work some years ago. I could not attend regular school because there was no one to advise my parents on the importance of education and also, there was no school close by. So, my parents decided to send me to FSL-India’s…
My name is Sophie. I’m a volunteer from Germany and I live in Tamil Nadu since the last 10 months. I’m working in the NGO Servo Trust, which is a Women Empowerment Project from FSL-India. Servo Trust is working together with the Forest Department of this district, in the Tamil Nadu Bio-Diversity Green Project. It’s an environment program financed by JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency) and the government of Tamil Nadu, with the aim of afforestation. Every year, many hundred…
Hello to one and all! My name is Raju. Since April 2018, I am working at Nisarga Grama, Sparsha Trust. As the person in charge of Nisarga Grama, I am responsible for all the 133 children which are living here at the moment. In the morning. the children wake up at 6 am to do yoga and their prayers. After that. they get ready for school, eat their breakfast and leave for school around 9 am. Between 3.30 pm and…
We are Marthe Kiesler and Charlotte Mertz, 2 volunteers from Germany, working in a shelter for underprivileged children in Hesaraghatta, a village on the outskirts of Bangalore City. The shelter, called “Nisarga Grama” is one of 6 shelters that belong to the organization “Sparsha Trust”, founded in 2005 by R Gopinath.