FSL India Blog

FSL-India is running tent school project for the children of migrating families in the selected villages of Kundapur taluk belonging to Udupi district. The first tent school has started in year 2006, in Kundapur.

The tent families migrates from different parts of India, in search of employment and better opportunities. Because of these regular migration children’s education and health get affected and some children’s are forced to go for work or begging by their parents.

So the FSL-India’s Ho me Based Project initiated to rehabilitate these children and started identifying migrant’s tents and running school to give basic education to those children. The objective of this project is to motivate the children to join the regular school. International volunteers and local teachers are involved in teaching these children through innovative skills. Self help groups are been forming to educate and empower the families on Health and Hygiene.

With all the efforts and hard work since 2006, the year of 2011 is been a success for this project. Number of tent school has been increased from 3 to 8 schools, number of local teachers are 3 in the place of 1 in the beginning, 14 children from five different tent schools joined the main/ regular school. Moreover, out of 14, two children joined deaf and dumb Special school, one boy joined High school, one girl joined Kindergarten and the rest 10 kids joined Primary school. The parents and teacher are happy about changes in the life of the children.

We reached this level of progress only through the effort of all the previous and present volunteers, teachers and the whole tent school.

Its always nice to work together in group!!!

The objective of FSL India, to work together, to share together, to create together could be seen when we all got involved in building the Tent School. Just before the celebration of Christmas, volunteers from Work camp, sea turtle, environment education project and tent school project put hands in building tent school at Mullikatte.