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Volunteer Voice: “I am excited to continue my new start in India and look forward to many new experiences with my new family”

Volunteer Voice: “I am excited to continue my new start in India and look forward to many new experiences with my new family”

The January started off quite well. I was visiting Goa with a couple of other LTV volunteers over New Years, therefore spent my first days of the year in good company and surrounded by happy people. When I returned home, there was lots of work in the schooling project‚ Arivu School’ to do since I was going to perform for‚ Arivu Habba‘, the biggest celebration so far in my project. I was practicing traditional Indian music with a couple of…

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Dasi: A difficult life but dedicated to serve.

Dasi: A difficult life but dedicated to serve.

Looking back to the way I met Dasi I realize that it was not chance that brought us together but destiny! Sitting all by myself on the beach in Maravanthe, way back in 2004 I looked into the endless horizon wondering what I could do to save the amazing sea turtles from going extinct on our coastline. My memory went back to the time when I first saw, this wonderful and impressive creature. I was just 12 years old when…

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Waste Management Survey in Kundapura

Waste Management Survey in Kundapura

              On the 11th of March, our Home Based Project team decided to tackle the growing concern of improper waste management systems in Kundapura. Waste mismanagement was leading to debris in the ocean, causing harm to marine life, and littering the roads of the areas.              The team, in order to draw the attention of the Municipality Authorities, met and consulted with Kodi Bearys College of Management, the NSS wing,…

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Beach clean-up certificate distribution

Beach clean-up certificate distribution

        On the 20th and 21st of January, 2014, our Home Based Project team in Kundapura initiated a certificate distribution activity as a token of recognition for participants of our “debris free ocean” beach clean-up which took place on the 21st of September 2013. The clean-up activity had collected 13 tonnes of waste and had mobilized around 600 volunteers from schools, colleges, the fishermen community, youth clubs, self-help groups, Rotary members and more.        …

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LTV Get Together – August 2012

LTV Get Together – August 2012

FSL-India organised LTV get-together at two different locations for the long term volunteers on 16th and 17th August 2012. While the LTV Program Team of Bangalore Region organised at Chandrashekar School, Bangalore with the theme Paint the School; Kundapur Region organised the get together at Mundigemane, Madodi, Shivmoga. In Bangalore out of fourteen invited only nine volunteers participated. From Kundapur region ten volunteers participated in the get together. The objectives of the GTG are as follows:   to share their…

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Save the Tigers

Save the Tigers

Hi, I want you to take a look at Save Our Tigers | Join the Roar Link: http://www.saveourtigers.com/JoinTheRoar.php Save Our Tigers | Join the Roar Please join the roar and save them

Sea Turtle News

Sea Turtle News

As part of our sea turtle project a huge green turtle weighing nearly 100 kilograms was spotted near Uppunda, 25 kilometers north of Kundapur. This turtle was accidentally caught in the fishing net of a fisherman here and he informed our new contact person Mr Kamalaksha who called the project immeadiatly. FSL sea turtle team rushed to the spot immediately and released this turtle to the sea. It is  very good motivation to the sea turtle volunteers who worked very…

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Apsarakonda falls

Apsarakonda falls

Apsara konda (Apsarakonda) is a small village near Honnavar, town in North Kanara district. Six km from Honnavar, is situated the Apsara Konda Falls. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honavar You can see a picture of the falls : http://gallery.holidaymakers.in/v/album02/Waterscapes-Karnataka/apsara-konda-honnavara.JPG.html I had been there last week and felt a urge to just jump in and take a dip. It is situated in a serene environment of green tropical forest. Just above is the is the Narasimha temple, if you follow the steam after the falls…

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The sparrow in Austria

The sparrow in Austria

The sparrow in Austria: In Museum Quarter in Vienna, a little sparrow came and sat next to me. And then I remembered,  around  25 years back there used to be lots and lots of of sparrows in Kundapur and the surrounding areas. One could see great flocks of 50 to 100 sparrows flying down like a huge cloud and perch on shop floors, shop roofs and in rice fields. But now, you cannot see any!! It really started got me…

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