December 2019 – FSL BLOG

LTV Cultural Event at Kollur on 19th December 2019 – Kollur Mookambika Goddess blesses FSL India’s volunteers

December 30, 2019 Asha Elisha

“There’s the 9 o’clock bus”, Dinesh my coordinator says. We are still waiting for Miri, another volunteer and we realise we will have to take the next bus. The 3 of us are going to Kollur for a cultural visit today. “There’s Miri!” I exclaim as Miri descends from the 9 o’clock bus and walks towards us. We burst into laughter. She is right on time, and didn’t know what bus Dinesh had planned for us to take. Oh, well,…

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Climate Justice Campaign

December 30, 2019 Asha Elisha

On 13th December 2019, on the occasion of ‘Kodi Habba’, The Clean Kundapura Project and FSL India jointly organised an awareness campaign about Anti-Plastic and Sea Turtle Conservation along with the FSL India volunteer’s staff and Clean Kundapura Project volunteers during the Koteshwara festival. The team members of Clean Kundapura Project and FSL India volunteers spread awareness among the festival visitors through distributing flyers and interacting with them. Since many shop keepers used plastics for packing items, we visited shops…

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LTV Cultural Event, Pondicherry – December 2019

December 27, 2019 Asha Elisha

On 16th December 2019, FSL-India, Pondicherry’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 Pondicherry. This month, the Cultural Event was focused on Religion, the Nataraja temple and Thillai Kaali, at Chidambaram. The Nataraja Temple, also referred to as the Chidambaram Nataraja temple or Thillai Nataraja temple, is a Hindu…

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Street cleaning in Kandlur

December 27, 2019 Asha Elisha

Today’s dirt and ignorance will have to be cleaned up and paid for by tomorrow’s generations. FSL India’s HBP volunteers, staff and school teachers participating in street cleaning with schoolchildren in Kandlur on 13th of December, was an obvious example of that. Seeing schoolchildren climbing down into the trenches alongside of the road, collecting bottles, plastic wrappers, old paper etc. For these particular children, the street cleaning session was faced with enthusiasm. The children were divided into groups, each responsible…

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LTV Cultural Event, Mysore– December 2019

December 26, 2019 Asha Elisha

On 9th December 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 Nature – KRS Dam, Mandya. The Brindavan Gardens is a garden located in the Mandya district of the state of Karnataka, India. It lies adjoining the…

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Contact Person and Host Family Workshop – Kundapur and Mangalore

December 26, 2019 Asha Elisha

FSL India, LTV team organised a “Contact Person and Host Family Workshop” on 15th November 2019 at FSL India’s CEL (Centre for Experiential Living), Kundapur for both Udupi and Mangalore zones. Totally, 52 participants including the contact person and host families from different places attended the workshop. The workshop started with energisers and games, and the participants enjoyed themselves and had a lot of fun. The CPHF workshop mainly focused on safety, group discussion on how best the host family…

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Inauguration of Children’s Play Area at Madiwala Lake

December 17, 2019 Asha Elisha

As part of their CSR programme, Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions Private Limited (RBEI) entered into an agreement with FSL India and the Karnataka Forest Department (KFD) to work on the development of Madiwala Lake and the facilities surrounding it. The Madiwala Lake project aims to involve the community and its neighbourhood in the development of the park, thereby transforming Madiwala Biodiversity Park into a replicable model. FSL-India facilitated a stakeholders meeting on 16th February 2019, at Madiwala Lake….

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Human Trafficking Session at Roshni Nilaya, Mangalore

December 17, 2019 Asha Elisha

On 10th December 2019, the School of Social Work at Roshni Nilaya, Mangalore invited FSL India and its volunteers to the one-day Seminar on “Human Trafficking: Challenges & Responses“. Almost 100 students from several colleges, and our volunteers from Sweden, France, Italy, Norway and Germany participated. It was a beautiful coincidence that 10th December was the international “Human Rights Day”. The session was opened by some students in traditional clothes that made an emotional performance about the act of human…

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LTV Cultural Event, Mysore – November 2019

December 16, 2019 Asha Elisha

On 11th November 2019, FSL India, Mysore’s coordinator organised a Cultural Event (CE) for our regular LTV volunteer. 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 Religion. Chamundeshwari Temple, named after the goddess Chamundi, sits atop the main hill. The main hill itself features an ancient stone stairway of 1,008 steps leading…

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Kannada Rajyotsava Celebrations at Baikadi Tent School

December 16, 2019 Asha Elisha

Kannada Rajyotsava or Kannada Day, also known as Karnataka Formation Day or Karnataka Rajyotsava, is celebrated on 1st November of every year. This was the day in 1973, when all the Kannada language-speaking regions of South India were merged to form the state of ‘‘Karnataka.” In memory of that day, we celebrated Kannada Rajyotsava Day along with FSL India’s volunteers, locals and children at Baikadi Tent School. Rajyotsava day is celebrated with great joy and vigour all over the state…

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