GTG- Kundapur, May
The Kundapur Region’s monthly Get Together for the month of was organized at Kinara restaurant at Kodi beach. Two volunteers and three staff participated in this one day event.
Contact Person / Host family Workshop – Bangalore Region
In the month of April Bangalore Region has conducted workshop on “Emergency Action Plan” (EAP) to all our local partner, host families and to the Contact Person. To conduct this workshop we welcome 2 facilitators from Educative Collectors .
Holi celebration…
Via a group whatsapp most of the volunteers were reminded of the yearly Holi festival, which is celebrated by followers of the Vedic Religion, but which has attracted many people around India who are not associated with this religion. It is a fest that is celebrated at home, in school and most of all in the streets. Holi, also called Phageval, is a festival of colors. Holi takes its name from Holika. She was a female demon and , thanks…
Testimonials of the Contact Person Mrs. Priya Deeksha
A background of the project/local partner: The school established in 1960, the school provides education to children from primary to high school level, between standards 1 to 10, the approximate age group of the children ranging from 6 years to 16 years. The medium of instruction is Kannada, the regional language of Srirampur, located in Mysore District of the State of Karnataka, where the school is situated. The government provides scholarship to schedule caste and schedule tribe students at the…
Contact Person and Host Family Workshop – 2015 for Udupi and Mangalore Zone
Local projects are one of the major stakeholders of FSL India’s IVS program. To empower LTV project Contact Person, FSL India is organized workshops in different regions and zones. Accordingly, the workshop for Udupi zone contact person was held on 10th April in Mulki and for Mangalore zone and on 11th April 2015 at Fsl-India youth training centre Kundapur for Udupi zone. Workshops are conducted every year to understand and strengthen the partnership between host organization, host family, volunteers and…
GTG- Kundapur, April-2015
Get together for the month of April was organized in Uppinakudru village where the volunteers participated in annual Maari festival at a local Bobbarya Temple. Uppinakudru is located at a distance of 6 Km towards north from Kundapur in Udupi district. Uppinakudru literally means ‘Island of Salt’. This beautiful village situated on coastal Karnataka was once popular for trading of Salt and Sea food. Bobbarya is known as the God of the seas and hence worshipped mostly by members of the fishermen community as…
GTG blog article – Bangalore region- April, 2015
The LTV get-together for the month of April has been organized in Bangalore on 16th and 17th 2015 in Avadhoota datta peetham (Mysore). There were twelve volunteers and four FSL-India staff members participated in the get together.
April Orientation Blog
Date: 6th to 10th April 2015. Venue: FSL-India, Wilson Garden – Bangalore In the month of April, FSL India hosted 09 Long Term Volunteers from 4 different countries (France, Germany Sweden and Japan). Everyday evening we have organised different events for the exchange of Intercultural learning. First day was traditional Indian welcome event, then all the volunteers had chance to have Henna. On second day volunteers had the opportunity to test their skills by working in a project for the…
BMZ Mid Term Evaluation – March
Mid-term evaluation was held between 18th-20th March for NH14 BMZ/IJFD volunteers who arrived between the month of September to November. Aim of the MTE is to evaluate the volunteer’s Learnings & contributions in order to develop appropriate strategies to attain quality results. Evaluation seminars are conducted for Weltwerts pax to evaluate the progress made in project based on the expected outcome and also to make space for volunteers to identify and express the new learning/ knowledge/ skills gained during the program and…
My experience in India… Jana Biedova
Here I go, finally posting the article I was asked to write about 2 months ago… Well, what would better subscribe my time spent in India then such a delay. 2 months lasting delay can mean only one thing – not having enough time because of being so occupied by discovering amazingly interesting Indian culture… or second – not having internet connection. Or both as in my case.