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Month: December 2015

Inauguration of Tailoring Training

Inauguration of Tailoring Training

As a part of Dream Village Project Phase-II, on 17.12.2015 FSL India has organised the Inaugural Program for the Livelihood Skill Training and Development on Tailoring. The real beneficiaries are women folk. It is 40 days of Indoor Training with both Theory and Practical teachings.

“El Nino” Disaster in CHENNAI

“El Nino” Disaster in CHENNAI

Chennai – capital of Tamil Nadu was recently hit severely by flooding. The entire city was washed out and many people have lost their homes and belongings and even had to struggle for food and basic needs for more than week. The entire city was disconnected from other areas of Tamil Nadu.

QTE- Kundapur

QTE- Kundapur

LTV team-Kundapura organized Quarter Evaluation for long term volunteers. The program was held for 3 days from 30th November to 2nd December 2015. In total 33 volunteers from different programs like EG, AFS and IJGD took part in this evaluation. The QTE was organized in FSL India training centre. The objective of QTE is to ensure that the volunteers understand about their project, host family and intercultural acceptance through the evaluation and to help participants to prepare themselves for their…

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Play for Peace- Kundpur

Play for Peace- Kundpur

This time LTV, FSL India- Kundapura organized a Play For Peace (PFP) session in Government Higher Primary School, Mavinakatte. The objective of this session was to promote positive relationships among children from cultures in conflict. The session was planned for 1.30 hours. Children really enjoyed participating. We used energizers, ice breakers and communication methods in this activity. Mavinakatte is a small village in Kundapur. The population is around 1800 inhabitants. Mainly Hindu and Muslim people are living in this village….

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Kitchen garden-Yethadi, tent school

Kitchen garden-Yethadi, tent school

Yesterday, Monday December 21st SAP-K volunteers and staff visited tent school in order to create a kitchen garden for the tent community living in Yethadi. We also counted on YDP- Bangalore volunteers who have been taking part in SAP-K activities for the last few days.

My experience in India!! Marta

My experience in India!! Marta

My name is Marta, I have been doing an internship in FSL-India Kundapur for 6 months and I will try to “put in paper” my experience all over this time. The project I work for is SAP-K, based in FSL training centre in Shetrakatte, rural area on the Southeast coast on India. SAP-K stands for Sustainable Agriculture Project- Kundapur and its main idea is to evolve a model of sustainable agriculture for a sustainable livelihood. We visit farmers who already carry out organic farming, we learn…

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Training on Vermicompost

Training on Vermicompost

We are happy to communicate you all that we have already ready the first organic Vermicompost in our training center in Kundapur. It has been a long time but, after facing different challenges and overcoming them, the first sample is ready to be used to powerfully fertilize our plants and trees.Remember this fertilizer is made out of dry leaves, soil, cow dung and kitchen waste.  

Chennai flood drive!!Kundapur

Chennai flood drive!!Kundapur

Unfortunately, as many of you might have already heard, Chennai (located on the Southeast coast of India) has been devastated by El Nino, weather condition recognized by heavy rains. Around 300 deaths, streets full of water, schools shut down, lack of food, medicines and drinking water and thousands of evacuated people is the current situation in the area. The worst might be to come due to mosquitoes, diseases and infections because of the low hygienic living conditions of people who have lost nearly everything. That…

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