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Climate Change Solution: Vijay Karnataka, 22nd March 2019

Climate Change Solution: Vijay Karnataka, 22nd March 2019

Sweden’s 16 year old Greta Thunberg was nominated for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize for fighting global climate change. Inspired by her efforts, FSL-India, an international organisation, hosted an informative workshop at Mavinakatte High School. Schools’ Boycott for Climate Change Sweden’s Greta urged her class students to protest towards the clamp down on climate change solutions, her campaign is supported by 105 countries so far. In response to a call given by Thunberg on March 15th, some schools in Bengaluru…

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Happy Holi at CEL!

Happy Holi at CEL!

On the 26th of March, FSL-India’s Centre for Experiential Living,  Shettrakatte was full of volunteers. The Final Evaluation for some German Long Term Volunteers, coming from Mysore and Kundapura area, was going on. FSL-India’s staff Manjunath also came from Mysore for the same reason. As usual, the SAP-K, EE, STC and 100th Monkey volunteers were working at our CEL as well. Suddenly, some colors started splashing in the air, as well as on the faces and bodies of people. Everybody…

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Internship at CEL, Kundapur – Ujwal & Vikas, Delhi

Internship at CEL, Kundapur – Ujwal & Vikas, Delhi

We are 2 Law students, Ujjwal and Vikas, from Delhi, pursuing BA LLB (Hons). We came to FSL-India for an internship based on some major social issues that we wanted to work on. Being law students, we have always identified the areas that need urgent care and support for community welfare and development. This is one of the major aims of FSL-India – Community Development. We worked in the organization for 2 months and fulfilled our purpose to a certain…

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Ayudha Pooja

Ayudha Pooja

On Friday 29th September, in Kundapura FSL India- CEL, staff and volunteers, totally 20 members participated in Ayudha Pooja. Why did we celebrate it in CEL? CEL is Community based center and FSL India is a non-political, non-religious & non-governmenalt organization. We are an institution, which promotes Pease through cultural exchange.    This is reason why we celebrate all types of festivals in order to celebrate all cultures around. In this way we celebrated Ayudha Pooja in CEL. Ayudha Pooja part…

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A visit from the officials of the Consulate General of Germany, Bangalore

A visit from the officials of the Consulate General of Germany, Bangalore

On the 13th of September, Mr Martin Rohlmann, Cultural Officer and Mrs Sujata Sundaram, Officer – Economic Affairs and PR,  from  the Consulate General of Germany, Bangalore visited FSL-India, Bangalore.  The main objective of the visit was to exchanges ideas for the betterment of the Weltwaerts program and to understand the scope of FSL-India’s programs and partnerships. Indeed, it was an immense pleasure to meet the officials in person and strengthen FSL-India’s collaboration with the Consulate General of Germany, and also commit to advance…

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Visit of Shri Pramodh Madhvaraj , Honourable Minister for Youth Empowerment & Sports, Karnataka to FSL-India’s Centre for Experiential Living, Shettrakatte, Kundapur

Visit of Shri Pramodh Madhvaraj , Honourable Minister for Youth Empowerment & Sports, Karnataka to FSL-India’s Centre for Experiential Living, Shettrakatte, Kundapur

It is a great pleasure for FSL-India to let everyone know that Shri Pramodh Madhvaraj, our honourable Minister for Youth Empowerment & Sports, Karnataka, visited us today, Thursday 7th September 2017, at our Centre for Experiential Living, Kundapur. During his visit, he learned about our projects through a photo exhibition, watching a video about our work and through discussions with our President, Mr. Rakesh Soans. After a walk around our premises, he met the new batch of 30 German and…

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Wish Tree at CEL

Wish Tree at CEL

Here we are letting you know about our hopefully fruitful wish tree! But, what is a wish tree? Everybody has at least one little wish. Some of them can be paid with money and some of them can be paid with time or in means of kind. At FSL India we are a lot of people, so we also have a lot of wishes for our projects. However, some of them are not affordable for us, because even if they…

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There’s a New Kid in Town!

There’s a New Kid in Town!

FSL-India has great news from CEL, Kundapur – our goat, called Rani, which means Queen in Kannada (the local language spoken here) has had a little female baby! Everything happened last night, when we heard Rani crying, which does not happen at all in the night. When Gopal, our security man, went to check what was going on, we found out the beautiful news. It is really exciting to have a new member in our CEL family. However, she requires…

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