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Azolla Training at CEL, Kundapur

Azolla Training at CEL, Kundapur

Greetings from FSL-India’s Centre for Experiential Living, Kundapur! As part of our training goal of empowering and educating all our staff and volunteers, we had a new training this month, conducted by Mr. C. Doreswamy, our Joint Director. As agriculture plays an important role in rural areas (like the area where CEL is located), finding new ways of enabling the local community to make food production more sustainable can have a huge, beneficial impact on the local environment, as well…

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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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Experience at FSL-India

Experience at FSL-India

The first day when I stepped into CEL I had a “WOW” expression seeing nature so-o close. For me, one month was very less time for experiencing a life with nature. One month without social media and other stuff, it was great!! Unexpected rain showers while working in garden, Rani’s (goat) bleating, playtime with Melo (FSL-India’s dog), making fun of my co-workers, playing cricket with the coordinators, enjoying cooking, preparing masala chai, playing UNO cards with music, Gopalanna’s whistle after…

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Tree plantation in community through Trees for India!

Tree plantation in community through Trees for India!

Hello everyone! Greetings from CEL! Here we are we some updates with a new plantation in the community through the initiative called ‘Trees for India’. Through this program, we aim to do plantations in the local community while these plantations are sponsored by others. The idea is to do specially, fruit plantations, from which the families or schools can benefit. For instance, our last plantation was this week, in a family house of 7 members. There, we planted amla tree…

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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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Self-Help Group Training at CEL

Self-Help Group Training at CEL

On Friday 1st September, in Kundapura FSL India- CEL, staff, interns from Delhi, MSW students and volunteers, totally 20 members participated in SHG training, conducted by Mr. Doreswamy, Joint Director of FSL-India. In this training, we gained the knowledge of formation and running of SHG and how it is useful for the community. What is SHG? SHG is a group of around 10 to 20 people who come together to save regular small sums of money which can be used…

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Self-made Soap at CEL!

Self-made Soap at CEL!

Hi everyone… greetings from Kundapur! We bring you new updates on our experiments at the Centre for Experiential Living. This time, it’s all about how to make home-made soap. Making soap is easier than one might think. All that is needed is fat, oil or wax, NaOH Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH) and water. Instead, one might also use Potasssium Hydroxide (KOH), which will give liquid soap. To make solid soap you first need to mix the NaOH with the water. It…

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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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Health and Hygiene session at CEL, Kundapur – August 2017

Health and Hygiene session at CEL, Kundapur – August 2017

And for one more month, FSL-India is happy to inform you about the successful Health and Hygiene session conducted at FSL-India’s Centre for Experiential Living, for high school children from our neighbouring villages. This time, 50 children from IXth standard participated in it, from morning to evening and they learned about personal and community hygiene, physical and psychological, stress management, exam preparation and even sexual abuse, from doctors and interns from the Psychiatry Department of Kasturba Medical College, Manipal. These…

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