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Author: Rohan Dsouza

Director - Youth Development Program Incharge of Community Development (CSR), Outbound, 100th Monkey, Training, National Volunteers
My experience in the project- Peter-Julius Giedigkeit & Bennet Noah Hutzelmeier

My experience in the project- Peter-Julius Giedigkeit & Bennet Noah Hutzelmeier

Name of the volunteers: Peter-Julius Giedigkeit & Bennet Noah Hutzelmeier. Arrival month: August 2014 for 11 Months.  Project: CSI Boys Boarding home & Orphanage, Puttur. The C.S.I. Boys’ Boarding Home is a hostel for poor-background boys who often have no or only meager access to proper school education at their homes. The target of hosting those boys is to allow them to go to school regularly and to take the pressure of their parents. The hostel was built up by…

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Planning for Sustainable Agriculture Satellite project.

Planning for Sustainable Agriculture Satellite project.

Sustainable agriculture project is implementing in FSL Training Center Kundapur.  Watershed components like Gully Plugs, Trenches and Organic Farming is already implemented in Training Center. This will help volunteers and also to Community people to learn about organic farming.

LTV Orientation, December

LTV Orientation, December

In the month of October the LTV orientation has been held in FSL India’s head office for five days from 1st to 5th December 2014, in Bangalore. FSL India has received 3 short Term Volunteers from 3 different parts of countries (Switzerland, France, and Netherland).

Pondicherry workcamp- December

Pondicherry workcamp- December

During the month of December 2014, two of our work camp team leaders; Rajesh and Arkesh, led an organic farming and environment themed work camp in Pondicherry. Attending this work camp were three volunteers from two different countries; the French and Germany. The work camp participants collaborated with the Shristi foundation in a mushroom cultivation activity during which the volunteers learned about  the process of vermicompost and Indian method of farming. In working with the local community, the two sides…

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GTG, Kundapur- December

GTG, Kundapur- December

On the 11th and 12th December , FSL- India organised a Get together for the long term volunteers living around Kundapur. There are 10 volunteers participated, accompanied by 5 FSL staff members. This month’s GTG was held at Simha Farms. Simha Farms is located in the Western Ghats mountain range and is surrounded by the Ghats’ evergreen forests. Its remote location makes for a perfect place to relax from everyday life and enjoy the nature.  

Dharamasala workcamp- November

Dharamasala workcamp- November

 Theme: Culture/ Environment/Construction  Place: Dharamasala;                          Camp dates: 3rd to 23rd November, 2014    Team leader: Chandan Volunteers: 13 , 4- America, 4-France, 3-S.Korea, 1-Germany and 1-Belgium Environment: In this workcamp, we had 13 international volunteers. Our team leader aided the volunteers to achieve their satisfaction and fulfillment that they seek through volunteerism. The volunteers actively took part in various activities in the Forsythgang  government primary school, the activities are renovating school wall, school wall painting and educational drawing. The volunteers also involved in…

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LTV Get-together in Bengaluru Region – November 2014

LTV Get-together in Bengaluru Region – November 2014

The Bangalore region organised LTV get-together at AIKYA in Bangalore on 13th and 14th. November 2014. Altogether 13 volunteers from Bangalore Region participated in the program.  The LTV team of FSL-India facilitated the get-together. The underlying objective of the get-together is to asses the progress on the inter-cultural learning and project activities assigned to each volunteer. Activities in the Project, Host Family skit and one-to-one talk with coordinators were the major activities facilitated during the program. It was also an…

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Observation of International Volunteer Day at Chaitanya Special School

Observation of International Volunteer Day at Chaitanya Special School

FSL-India Kundapur team observed International volunteers Day in Chaitanya Special School on 5th December 2014. The team volunteered to help and cleaned the play ground and installed playing material (marry ground) which was donated by volunteers. Mr. Daya, Mrs. Vaz, Mr. Jeevan, Ms. Manjula, Mr. Simon, Ms. Katharina, Ms. Julie, Mr. Pièrre, Ms. Laura and Mr. Tilman participated in the program.