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Project, Host family, Volunteer Intro Meeting – August 2019

Project, Host family, Volunteer Intro Meeting – August 2019

On 17th August 2019, FSL India’s contact persons, volunteers and host families from Kanchipuram, Pondicherry and Mysore met and interacted with each other at their respective locations. This Intro meeting was organised by Bangalore Region’s LTV team, in order to build relationships with each other and ensure support during their volunteering programme. The project staff, host families and our volunteers bonded together very easily thanks to the icebreakers and friendly atmosphere. They got to know about the different projects and…

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Cultural Day at Maharani’s College, Mysore: FSL-India’s Long Term Volunteers bond with college students

Cultural Day at Maharani’s College, Mysore: FSL-India’s Long Term Volunteers bond with college students

In our Mysore zone, FSL-India’s volunteers were invited to participate in a Cultural Day celebration at Maharani’s College. At the annual cultural event, our volunteers were warmly welcomed by the students. It was good to see the celebrations where the whole college was decorated with colours and all the students were dressed in traditional outfits. As soon as they saw the volunteers, they began to shout out a smiling welcome to them. 5 volunteers participated in this event and FSL-India’s coordinator…

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LTV Orientation – August 2019

LTV Orientation – August 2019

In the month of August, FSL-India hosted 39 Long-Term Volunteers from Germany, from 5th-10th. For this orientation, our LTV team organised different events for the exchange of ICL (Inter-Cultural Learning). The sessions conducted on diverse topics like ‘Indian’ welcome, introduction to FSL-India, local language class, practical information, Indian lifestyle, safety and project information, each volunteer’s role and responsibilities. It was observed that the participants were interested to know about Indian culture and practices. The volunteers actively participated in the orientation….

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Marielle’s valuable service at our Home – Stephen Raj, Project Head, Baby’s Sarah’s Home, Pondicherry

Marielle’s valuable service at our Home – Stephen Raj, Project Head, Baby’s Sarah’s Home, Pondicherry

Ms Marielle Risson, FSL-India’s volunteer fṛom France helped us at Baby Sarah’s Home (a residential home for persons with Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Mental Retardation, Multiple disabilities and Orphan children) for a period of 3 months, from 11th April 2019 to 27th June 2019. Marielle provided her valuable service at our Home for the orphan and destitute, children with Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Mental Retardation and Multiple Disabilities by teaching, assisting at the special school, and training our students in various games…

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My year in India at El-Shadai Charitable Trust, Chennai – Orphan Children Teaching: Sophie Mueller, Germany

My year in India at El-Shadai Charitable Trust, Chennai – Orphan Children Teaching: Sophie Mueller, Germany

Diverse, intoxicating, engaging – these words describe India on the first sight, very good for me. I’ve never been to a country, where, depending where you are, the landscape, the culture itself, the food and the whole life is so different and still the same. That’s why I was completely overpowered when I arrived. Everything was loud, everything was colorful and everything was full. To be honest, this can be quite exhausting, so I was quite happy when I arrived…

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Women’s Day Celebration at ODP, Mysore – Laura Kirsi Maria Saukkonen, Media & PR

Women’s Day Celebration at ODP, Mysore – Laura Kirsi Maria Saukkonen, Media & PR

On 12th March 2019, Organisation for the Development of People (ODP), Mysore where I’m based as a volunteer, organised an amazing women’s day celebration. 3000 members of the women’s self-help groups supported by ODP were invited. For the occasion, I also decided to wear a saree, a traditional Indian dress. Lucky thing I did, since as a surprise, I was invited on the stage with all the honorable guests and women activists. Everyone I met was very pleased that I…

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Our Young Volunteer – Marie Cäecilie Schmidt, Regular Teaching Project: S Sudha, Teacher, Panchayat Union Primary School, Chettipedu

Our Young Volunteer – Marie Cäecilie Schmidt, Regular Teaching Project: S Sudha, Teacher, Panchayat Union Primary School, Chettipedu

I am S Sudha, a teacher at Panchayat Union Primary School, Chettipedu. My School headmistress’ name is Mrs Regina Mary. Since there were only 2 teachers in our school, our headmistress invited a volunteer to our school. Our volunteer’s name is Cäecilie, who is from Germany. She arrived at our school in November 2018. My outlook on the German people was they were enormously nice, too. At the beginning, there was difficulty in communication for her with our children. A…

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Mid-term Evaluation for Our Long Term Volunteers – Service Civique

Mid-term Evaluation for Our Long Term Volunteers – Service Civique

In the month of April 2019, FSL-India’s LTV Bangalore region organised a Midterm Evaluation (MTE) for our Service Civique Long-term volunteers at Pondicherry. The event took place on 25th and 26th April 2019 at Pondicherry. 5 Volunteers from Service Civique France participated in the evaluation. The main objective of the MTE is to evaluate the volunteer’s learnings and contributions to their projects, in order to develop appropriate strategies to attain quality results. Secondly, it is also to create a platform…

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My experiences from the last month – Hannah Wild, Germany

My experiences from the last month – Hannah Wild, Germany

I’m in India since 6 months and I already got so many impressions, met so many nice people and learned so much about the culture. In addition to the regular language class, I can learn a lot from the children in my project, and from the people I work with. My knowledge of the language Tamil is not very big, but it is enough to talk to the children and for the daily life. For example, to buy fruits or…

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Farming, Volunteers and FSL-India 2017-18: Rahul Dayalu, Project Head, Shri Gurumahanteshwara – Sustainable Agriculture

Farming, Volunteers and FSL-India 2017-18: Rahul Dayalu, Project Head, Shri Gurumahanteshwara – Sustainable Agriculture

Our association with FSL-India has grown further in 2017 and 2018. FSL-India and their volunteers have already become an integral part of our project. The farm was new and mostly barren in 2016-2017. There was a lot of work that happened in that period, right from land preparation to the plantation of crops, putting fencing, building a farmhouse, installing our drip irrigation system, and so on. The village school management, teachers and students were not used to foreigners. I was…

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