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Month: February 2019

Attending an Indian wedding: LTV Cultural Event, Mysore – January 2019

Attending an Indian wedding: LTV Cultural Event, Mysore – January 2019

On 26th January 2019, FSL-India-Mysore’s Coordinator organised a Cultural Event (CE) for our regular LTV volunteers. Every month, we organise a cultural event for our regular volunteers and we take them to any cultural and historical places which are located in and around Mysore. This month, the Cultural Event was focused on an Indian Cultural theme, and we took our volunteers to an Indian Christian wedding. Our idea of a typical Christian wedding revolves around frothy white dresses, tons of…

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22nd HMC at Ananthapuram – The South Korean volunteers from D-Team

22nd HMC at Ananthapuram – The South Korean volunteers from D-Team

Namaste..! We are from HMC D-Team members. Before our camp got started, we made a budget list. Through allocating each of the expenses, we helped to implement our activity much more easily. Before we started our work, we performed exercises to prevent accidents and through a hygienic campaign, we put our efforts to keep our members’ health. We remodeled  Kuruvandanapalli village local government school at Ananthapuram and toilet by painting and drawing and plantation of trees. At ITI college, Ananthapuram,…

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JNTU Students at 22nd HMC, Ananthapuram – Rakesh, Sagar, Meghana & Srisha,Team D

JNTU Students at 22nd HMC, Ananthapuram – Rakesh, Sagar, Meghana & Srisha,Team D

We are Indian students of FSL-India’s 22nd Happy Move Camp – D team members from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University College of Engineering, Ananthapuram (JNTUCEA). We had a very great time and good experience with the South Korean volunteers in the camp and our team leader, Manjunath B from FSL-India The Korean volunteers mingled with us very well, we had great interaction with the Koreans even with the mentors, they were very helpful and caring. We did renovation work at Government…

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Baby Shower Celebration Brings Joy to FSL-India Volunteers at LTV Kundapur’s Cultural Event

Baby Shower Celebration Brings Joy to FSL-India Volunteers at LTV Kundapur’s Cultural Event

On 21st of January 2019, FSL-India Kundapur’s LTV team organised a Cultural Event for 2 LTV volunteers. Every month, we organise a cultural event for our regular volunteers and we take them to any cultural and historical places which are located in and around Kundapur. This month, the Cultural Event was mainly focused on a family function. In the morning, FSL-India’s coordinator explained about the activities and we started our travel from the meeting point to Sasthana, the cultural event…

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Volunteering to teach in India – Paula Sophia Schlarb

Volunteering to teach in India – Paula Sophia Schlarb

Hello everybody, my name is Paula and I am 19 years old. I am from Germany, Aachen and since August 2018, I live in India, Manoor-Padukere. I will stay here until the end of June 2019, and I live in a host family with 2 host sisters (16 & 18 years  and 1 very nice Grandma. I am working at Padukere Government Higher Primary School in Manoor, and every morning, I only need 5 minutes to go there. I decided…

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11 months, 334 days, 8016 hours in India – Thorben Johannes Werner Roth, Germany

11 months, 334 days, 8016 hours in India – Thorben Johannes Werner Roth, Germany

Vanakkam! My name is Thorben Roth and I am a volunteer from Germany, and I came this year, in April, to India. I am doing a social service, which will last 11 months and I came with a group of people, who are also doing the same. My organisation is AFS-Germany, but the partner organisation which is the organization I am working with is FSL-India, located in India. My project in which I am working is a school for special…

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Volunteering in Germany – Grahisha Kairan

Volunteering in Germany – Grahisha Kairan

It’s been 3 months now – I never imagined that I would spend a year volunteering in Berlin, since I have done my studies in engineering. Like the saying goes, everything is planned and happens according to it. Since always, I was interested in designing creatives, DIYs (Do-It-Yourself) etc. I was fortunate enough that I got to work in a project called Speilmittle. Speilmittle is a place for creative minds. Here, creative toys are made for children, blind people, senior…

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Bag Garden Implementation at Angali Primary School, Kundapur

Bag Garden Implementation at Angali Primary School, Kundapur

On the 23rd of January 2019, FSL-India’s Sea Turtle Conservation (STC), Environmental Education (EE), Sustainable Agriculture Project-Kundapur (SAP-K), Social Entrepreneurship (SE) and Work Camp volunteers went to Angali Primary School with FSL-India’s Field Officer, Manjesh. It is a very small school with around 40 students who live nearby – some of them can see their houses from the school, and the classes have reduced groups. In that school, another FSL-India Long-Term Volunteer who teaches the schoolchildren, took the initiative to…

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