Terra Marine Research Institute,Karnataka in collaboration with FSL-India conducted a coastal survey in the month of May 2015 to interview and collect data from fishermen communities on the conservation status of sea turtles along the Udupi district coast.
Get together for the month of May was organized in Ooty, Called the Queen of Hill Stations picturesque, green Udhagamandalam better known, as Ooty is the most popular hill station in the South. Ooty Located in the Western ghats at a height of 2240m, Udhagamandalam is the headquarters of the Nilgiris district where the two ghats ranges meet. Nature has been generous with this region, which is by far the most beautiful in the state. Apart from coffee and tea…
Since you can read, watch and hear everywhere how indescribable, different, exotic, unique and so on India is, I did not dare to waste your precious time by repeating these things like a mantra. Not to say that they are untrue, but I feel like I you should know this by now. So I thought by myself, why not simply try to describe and explain what I experienced during my stay and take the risk to not capture the whole…
The HBP team of FSL-India conducted Summer camp in Anjuman Higher primary school Kundapur from 26th to 10th April-15 for 10 days, A total of 38 children were participated in this Summer camp. The camp was organized various recreational activities for children. The camp dealt with important environmental issues to implement this basic knowledge, we assisted the children with performing several activities such as waste segregation, climate change, Paper and plastic recycling, art of waste, Origami,Group bounding games, drawing Competition.
A background of the project/local partner in which they were placed: Spoorthi Organization was started in 2009 under society registration act 1860. It is a Non-government organization that mainly focuses on women empowerment. The organization provides various trainings to women and youth in fashion designer, computer training, tailoring, organic farming, fisheries, horticulture, vermi-compost, art and craft, yoga, spoken English etc. Every year government allocates the fund to this organization. In rural areas the organization conducts various programs on health, education,…
The HBP team of FSL-India conducted Summer camp in Heskatturu and Yedthadi from 13th to 30th April-15 , the total of 46 children were participated in this Summer camp. The camp was organized to make interaction between regular school going children and tent school children. The tent school team organized various recreational activities for children like drawing, painting, outdoor games, balloon balancing game, group bonding games, running race, mask making, Origami, paper craft, bottle game, making musical instruments from plastic…
The Kundapur Region’s monthly Get Together for the month of was organized at Kinara restaurant at Kodi beach. Two volunteers and three staff participated in this one day event.
The Kundapur workcamp held from 13th to 22nd April at Kundapur training center on sustainable agriculture theme. 1 volunteer from Belgium was participated. The volunteer involved in the activities along with the help of our HBP team like trenching, mulching, preparing plan for future agriculture related activities, filling nursery bags, visits to farmer’s agriculture land etc. The volunteer engaged in trenching work for 3 days in training center where she prepared a model trench using A frame which helps to…
First aid is the “best aid” for a person with emergency. There was no much opportunity for seeking so it’s very much essential for them to know first aid at when they are in an emergency. The 14th HMC villages – Thirupandiyur, Amarambedu & Kiloy were selected for such training sessions as the above villages located very interior and could not have immediate access to Hospital or Clinic. The German volunteer Ms. Sarah, expertise in First Aid along with Ms….
In the month of April Bangalore Region has conducted workshop on “Emergency Action Plan” (EAP) to all our local partner, host families and to the Contact Person. To conduct this workshop we welcome 2 facilitators from Educative Collectors .