January 2020 – FSL BLOG

Suttur’s Annual Jathra – LTV Cultural Event at Mysore, January 2020

January 31, 2020 Asha Elisha

On 22nd January 2020, 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 Suttur Festival. The annual Jathra Mahotsava of Adi Jagadguru Sri Shivarathreeshwara Shivayogi Mahaswamigalu is held at Suttur Srikshetra around the second week of January, every year. More…

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My Experience in India: Lina Schumann, Germany – Regular Teaching

January 28, 2020 Asha Elisha

Last April, I arrived in India and started working with FSL. In total, I’m staying for 11 months. My project is a Government Primary School at Mavinakatte, where I teach the children mainly from 1st to 5th standard. In general, I interact with the children and encourage them to speak English through language games, simple tasks, learning vocabulary, dancing and singing. I also give computer classes and training in correct spelling with the older children. In the beginning, the work…

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I have had a lot of interesting experiences so far – Lena Henke, Uthavi Karam Foundation (Thulir) – Women Empowerment

January 27, 2020 Asha Elisha

Vanakkam! My name is Lena and since 6 months now, I am living as a volunteer in Pondicherry, in the state of Tamil Nadu, in a ladies hostel. After spending the first half of my 11 months volunteer service in an NGO for community development, called Thulir Uthavi Karam Foundation, I decided to spend the second half in a school for disabled people, the Sharon Special School, where I started about 2 weeks ago. I deliberately used the first half…

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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

January 23, 2020 Asha Elisha

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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My Treasure Box – Madhuri P, 100th Monkey Facilitator, FSL India

January 18, 2020 Asha Elisha

What comes to your mind when you hear the word treasure box? Usually Jewels, Gold, Silver and any other valuable materialistic things that are kept very safe, right? ‘What’s in my Treasure Box?’ was the activity conducted at Vidya Jyothi School in session 17, this session was the 5th session on self-exploration. Firstly I would like to share some interesting things I witnessed with my group at this school from when the self-exploration/awareness activities have started. This bunch of 35…

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LTV Cultural visit to Cave Temple – Keradi Moodugallu Temple inspires Volunteers with longing to come again

January 16, 2020 Asha Elisha

The LTV monthly cultural visit was held on 10th January 2020 with Mr.Venkatesh, Victoria, Miriam, Agale and Korean work camp volunteers who work on the Sea Turtle Conservation and Sustainable Agriculture projects at FSL-India’s Centre for Experiential Living, Kundapur. One of the programmes at FSL-India is a cultural visit, where we take our regular volunteers to any cultural and historical places which are located in or around Kundapur. All our volunteers gathered at FSL India’s Centre for Experiential Living (CEL),…

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Traveling with a beautiful purpose – Aarti Polavarapu, Outbound participant

January 13, 2020 Asha Elisha

If someone asks me to define my experience in Greenland, I believe these 5 words would perfectly encapsulate my 5 weeks spent there. Being an Indian who grew up in Delhi, I’ve grown accustomed to having different seasons, but never any snow. Naturally, learning about the world’s biggest island 80 percent of which is permanently covered with ice, was fascinating for me. When I heard my friend from London talk about how she volunteers during summers to work with the…

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Experience during my 3 months in India – Merle Feindt, Germany: Project – Slum Teaching and Development

January 8, 2020 Asha Elisha

Early in September 2019, I arrived in Mangalore to attend the FSL India orientation week at the Training Centre in Kundapur, before I would continue my travel to Bangalore to settle at my project. In the early morning, I was warmly welcomed by several children who just attended their daily prayer and yoga session. I was not surprised by their hospitality towards me, but still, being welcomed like that gave me a feeling of comfort. The shelter I stayed at…

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Permaculture at CEL, Kundapur

January 8, 2020 Asha Elisha

Permaculture is a fundamental part of “Sustainable Agriculture” and it is what we have adopted at the “Centre for Experiential Living” (CEL), Kundapur. It is a whole system for providing human needs, using natural resources by maintaining its state of resilience, avoiding the use of limited resources. During December 2019, we reset the organic garden of the Centre using an organic “Synergic” method, based on the respect of the natural cycle, re-use of the resources already existing around the site,…

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FSL India’s HBP team visits SELCO Foundation, Manipal

January 6, 2020 Asha Elisha

We saw a lot of clever machines last week in Manipal! Rope making machine Sewing machine Photocopier Milking machine Pottery machine FSL India’s HBP-Team from Kundapur was invited to SELCO Foundation’s event of presenting a new batch of useful products for small businesses. What all these inventions had in common was their independency from the power grid. Even though many of the inventions shown in this event were technical machines with the need of energy supply, SELCO Foundation managed to…

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