Environmental Education
FSL India and Yuva Brigade, Karvikeri jointly conducted an awareness programme for the Karvikeri riverside community on keeping the river clean. Kundapura Municipality area, Karvikeri have decided to place a dustbin at the riverside. FSL India’s volunteer Jan Muhle from Germany has donated the dustbin.
The long stretch of Kodi Beach is not just sand and palm trees; it’s unfortunately, also a lot of plastic. Plastic that is harming wildlife and spoiling what could have been a perfectly beautiful beach. To better this situation, FSL India has partnered with Clean Kundapura Project, who have been arranging weekly beach cleanings regularly. FSL India’s HBP team and our volunteers have participated in the beach cleanings on 40 occasions, where, along with the local community, they have cleared…
How can we reach out to people, to make them reflect upon their behaviours and gain knowledge about how those behaviours effect the environment? At FSL India, we approach people in many different ways, in school sessions, writing these blog posts, creating activities to involve locals, and also using the media to reach even more people, to name some examples. Displaying messages about a sustainable future on public wall paintings is an artsy way to gain much attention. This week,…
On 13th December 2019, on the occasion of ‘Kodi Habba’, The Clean Kundapura Project and FSL India jointly organised an awareness campaign about Anti-Plastic and Sea Turtle Conservation along with the FSL India volunteer’s staff and Clean Kundapura Project volunteers during the Koteshwara festival. The team members of Clean Kundapura Project and FSL India volunteers spread awareness among the festival visitors through distributing flyers and interacting with them. Since many shop keepers used plastics for packing items, we visited shops…
Today’s dirt and ignorance will have to be cleaned up and paid for by tomorrow’s generations. FSL India’s HBP volunteers, staff and school teachers participating in street cleaning with schoolchildren in Kandlur on 13th of December, was an obvious example of that. Seeing schoolchildren climbing down into the trenches alongside of the road, collecting bottles, plastic wrappers, old paper etc. For these particular children, the street cleaning session was faced with enthusiasm. The children were divided into groups, each responsible…
FSL-India’s CEL team heard about the ‘clean environment’ efforts of Mr Ganesh Poojari, who is a resident of Kannada Kudru Island, Kundapur taluk. So, they visited him to find out what makes him tick. For 10 years, he worked hard in a restaurant at Dubai. A year ago, he came back from Dubai and now runs a bakery at Kundapur. He was fascinated by the example set by Dr A J Kalam, India’s late President, Mrs Sudha Murthy, the well-known…
Last August, there was a pretty yet unusual sight to see a 15 year old stand outside the Swedish Parliament with Hand Painted sign boards and self made fliers. That was Greta Thunberg protesting for a stronger Action on Climate Change. Greta Thunberg was reading about Climate Change since she was 10 years. She decided to call for action by herself against the economy and law systems responsible for lax attitude and actions towards Climate Change. Every Friday, Greta began…
In March 2019, we started to refill used plastic bottles with plastic trash. The previous volunteers from the Environmental Education (EE) Project already began the project of building one bench with eco bricks. We already had around 120 eco bricks from last year, so we needed only 60 more eco bricks for finishing our eco brick bench. Eco bricks are made out of plastic bottles filled with plastics waste. Each bottle’s weight reaches 300 grams, and it has to be…
On the morning of 27th February 2019, 93 students from Mavinakatte Government Primary School came to FSL-India’s Centre for Experiential Living with 3 teachers and their principal. The group was formed by the students of 6th and 7th standards, who came with the purpose of participating in an environmental awareness session. The group arrived with a big poster that stated “Make It Green” in Kannada. FSL-India welcomed them, and they all sat down in the meeting hall. After a short…
On 17th February, FSL-India’s HBP team and the MSW students from the Master of Social Work Department of Government First Grade College, Tenkanidiyoor visited the Mavinakatte Higher Primary School. Their purpose was to create an awareness about the environmental issues among the village people, along with the schoolchildren which we are facing in our daily life, such as plastic, deforestation, harming the flora and fauna, garbage, pollution etc. A few days before the skit, the MSW students prepared the skit’s…