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Insa and Lea Speak about their experience at Seon Ashram ….

Insa and Lea Speak about their experience at Seon Ashram ….

Namaskara! We are Lea and Insa from Germany. By now we are in India since two months and we do a one year volunteer service at the Seon Ashram Trust. It is located in the small village Gandibagilu which is in the south of the state Karnataka. We are doing social work with physically and mentally challenged children people as well as people who have psychological disorder. Every person who lives at the Ashram has his or her own story and fate: Old people, widows,…

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Winter Camp at Sevalaya in Chennai

Winter Camp at Sevalaya in Chennai

FSL-India organized Winter Camp at Sevalaya, Chennai for duration of two weeks from 9th to 19th October 2012. There were 18 German volunteers in the camp who participated in various activities such as construction of pathway from the entrance to main school building which is 140 meters. They painted 24 Black Boards at Sevalaya and drew pictures of vegetables, animals and flowers in three kindergartens.   Volunteers also participated in agriculture activities such as kitchen garden, banana plantation and cleaning…

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Volunteer’s Contribution in Teaching Project

Volunteer’s Contribution in Teaching Project

Name of volunteer: Miss Maria Country: Mexico Duration: June and July 2012 Project / Field: MVP / Regular Teaching     I would like to share about Miss Maria and her work in a regular teaching in Model Village Project. She hails from Mexico, came to India for a two-month volunteering in a teaching project facilitated by FSL-India. She worked in a government school in Chennai. She really impressed people by her hard-work with the children. She taught spoken English,…

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Kusaka’s Experience at Sneha Care Home

Kusaka’s Experience at Sneha Care Home

FSL-India has placed Miss Kusaka Miyako from Japan at Sneha Care Home. The Sneha Care Home primarily focuses on empowering and educating the HIV/AIDS infected children and the children who are orphans children with single parent. The project is running a home for the children. The children are within the age group of 4 to 12 years.

Laurus Edutech Delegate Visit Model Village Project

Laurus Edutech Delegate Visit Model Village Project

Laurus Edutech is an ISO 9001:2008 certified premier skill development group. It has over 34 years of experience in providing high quality vocational training to students, assessment support services to leading industry bodies and government organizations, placement and flexible staff service to customers across diverse industries. It has partnered with several government organizations, nodal agencies and other service providers.   Laurus Edutech has been implementing CSR activities in their target area for the local community to benefit. It is now…

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My Month in India

My Month in India

My name is Elsa Edling from the cold and small country Sweden and I have just spent a month working as a volunteer in India. I worked in the project Joseph Rural Development Trust (JRDT) in a small village near Chennai and my main assignment was to teach English at the local schools. I signed up as a volunteer at FSL-India who found and placed me in this project.   The orientation week   I met FSL-India staff and their…

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LTV Get Together (September 2012)

LTV Get Together (September 2012)

FSL-India organized LTV Get-Together (GTG) at two different locations for long-term volunteer placed in Kundapur and Bangalore regions on 13th to 14th September 2012. While the Bangalore region organized the GTG at Hotel Greenland Youth Hostel & International Tourist Home; Kundapur region organized the same at the Turtle Bay Beach Resort. Seven volunteers (Jacqueline Marie, Anita, Lisa-Marie, Katharina, Gesa, Joanna and Natalie) from Bangalore region and eight volunteers (Guillaume, Eva, Carlo, Jesus Lopez, Kira, Aljoscha, Jana Lena and Jana) from…

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FSL-India Volunteers Perform at JCI Event

FSL-India Volunteers Perform at JCI Event

On the 9th September international volunteers of FSL-India could reach out to the people of Kundapura. Every year a local youth club known as JCI organizes varieties of cultural program. But this year’s event had a special feature and an attraction to the audience as the international volunteers of FSL-India too participated in the cultural program. From 9th to 15th September people of Kundapur witnessed the celebration of different culture events.   Every year many youth organizations in and around…

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FSL-India Bids Adieu to German High School Students

FSL-India Bids Adieu to German High School Students

And it is time to say goodbye to the German High School Students who were on six week student exchange program in India………………..     The five German students: Niklas Bauer, Robert Benedikt Jurges, Hecker Miriam Alexandra, Johannes Kolb and Larisa Susan Franzke arrived in India on 16th July for the student exchange program. Having participated in a brief orientation facilitated by FSL-India team, the five German Students left for their respective Host Families and Host Schools. With lots of…

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Long Term Volunteers – New Arrivals (September 2012)

Long Term Volunteers – New Arrivals (September 2012)

Volunteerism is the heart of FSL-India’s development effort to promote field services and inter-cultural learning. As usual every month new volunteers across the world joined FSL-India in September 2012. FSL-India received 29 volunteers from six countries for volunteering service. FSL-India organised a week-long orientation for the new volunteers at Hotel Julie-Yo International, Kundapur from 3rd to 8th September 2012. The LTV Program Team Members of FSL-India such as Vaz, Aravind, Deepak, Immanuel, Daya, Nagoor, Godfrey, Anupama, Rubini, Stephen and Nagarathna…

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