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‘We met as strangers and left as good friends’ – Voltra, Hong Kong’s Coorg experience with FSL India: 21st-25th December 2019

‘We met as strangers and left as good friends’ – Voltra, Hong Kong’s Coorg experience with FSL India: 21st-25th December 2019

16 volunteers from Hong Kong spent their Christmas in India with us. During this time they got the opportunity to learn about coffee making in Coorg. They visited a coffee estate and a coffee factory and they worked on the estate. Other than learning about coffee, they spent time with orphan children during Christmas and provided them with lots of good memories in and around Coorg.  Here is what the Voltra volunteers have to say about their time at Coorg:…

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Beach Clean-up at Kundapur by FSL India’s Staff and Volunteers

Beach Clean-up at Kundapur by FSL India’s Staff and Volunteers

On Tuesday, 22nd of October 2019, FSL India’s HBP Staff and Volunteers, Uppunda Panchayat, Rani Bale Fishermen Co-operative Society and Coastal Security Guard unit jointly organised a beach clean-up at Uppunda, Madikal beach. Some of the local fishermen and youth also joined us to help clean up the beach. The beach area where we collected the washed up trash was 100 metres long. The first step included collecting all items that were larger than 2.5 cm and putting them into…

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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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Behind the Scenes: FSL-India’s Annual Meet-April 2019: Asha Elisha, Public Relations Officer, FSL-India

Behind the Scenes: FSL-India’s Annual Meet-April 2019: Asha Elisha, Public Relations Officer, FSL-India

Every year, all of FSL-India’s staff are rounded up and taken to one location to celebrate another year of working together. This year, as always, we waited with eager anticipation to find out what our Annual Meet had in store for us. It appeared to be a very hush-hush affair – all queries to HR (nosy or otherwise) were politely squashed, so there was no other go but to wait patiently. The only information we got was that we would…

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