It is said actions speak louder than words. On September 21, the joint endeavors of close to 600 local and international volunteers lay testament to this old adage. We came together to be a part of the world’s largest volunteering initiative to clean up waterways and the ocean: the International Coastal Cleanup. Our concerted efforts resulted in 11 tons of trash being collected in 1 day over 26 km of Karnataka’s coastline*.
The month of September saw another enthusiastic group of volunteers coming to India for mid- to long- term projects of 1 month to 1 year. The mix of 20, hailing from Germany, Spain and France will be working in various projects ranging from environment-related initiatives such as sea turtle conservation to educating children of migrant families in ‘tent schools’. As with all of our long-term volunteers, their first week began with an orientation on India and Indian culture. This ‘orientation…
To celebrate the hard work, introspect the progress plus performances, understand the programs better, achieve a common resolution for the future years and above all to Get together and have fun, FSL India arranges an Annual Meet for the staff every year. This year, the event was arranged at Out2Learn campus located 40Kms away from Bangalore city from 16th to 18th of May, 2013. The calm, scenic and the serene campus of Out2Learn provided a perfect platform for this Annual…
Rakesh S. Soans, President of FSL – India, recently wrote on the transformation that volunteering brings about in the individual. The article which appeared on Monday, July 8 2013 in the ‘Education Times’, is here republished: Undoubtedly modern higher education has undergone a radical and unprecedented change in the last few decades. New age learners have diverse learning needs, and the scope and methodology of learning for new millennium learners is immense. Education is all about personal development that imbibes…
Kundapur : With a total of 19 Participants and 6 Staffs of FSL India from the regional office in Kundapur, the Get Together (GTG) in March started with a bang on 14th of March in Honavar, North Canara at Go Green Home stay accommodation.
Here are a few clips of FSL- India in the news during the months of January and February of 2013.
At the heart of FSL – India and its work is intercultural learning through a spirit of voluntarism. Our activities, therefore, bring together various cultures and interests for a common purpose that benefits the communities we aim to impact as much as the people who volunteer their services. Partnerships with corporate sector entities and their social responsibility (CSR) initiatives support our efforts. They harness the potential of the private sector to bring about social change.
LTV Get together Feb – 2013 Bangalore : For the volunteers of Bangalore region, the Get together in the month of February was held in the beautiful town called Kushalnagar and the volunteers were accommodated at The Kushal Lodge, located at the heart of the town.a The Theme of this Get Together was “Braveheart” and a range of activities were conducted to understand the rich and lively Kodava culture. The Kodavas (anglicised as Coorgs) are a patrilineal ethno-lingual group from…
Volunteers from up to 9 different countries join FSL India for an inter-cultural learning opportunity. They will be placed in projects as different as women’s empowerment to orphan children’s teaching to slum development and environment education
About Me: My name is Paul Wullenweber, I am from Germany and now very close to completing my third month here in India. I left Germany in early August to join FSL India’s home-based-project “Environmental Education” in the course of my year in the German IJFD-programme. My Host Family: At the moment and for the next eight months, I am living in a host family a little outside of Kundapura. Although only my host mother Prathiba speaks English quite well,…