Hi! This is Kallene Ryan from USA. Here I would like to Share my experience to you. last three months I have spent volunteering for PET have been some of the most interesting and engaging moments of my life. At first I was slightly confused as to what my role and purpose would be, however after a few patient weeks of observing I came to realize I had enormous potential working here. Potential which I feel I too full advantage…
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,…
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,…
India honours the teachers on 5th September every year. The Teachers’ Day celebration in Kundapur this year wore a special event. Miss Larissa Haesler, an FSL-India volunteer from Germany was honoured on Teachers’ Day by Woman and Children Development Society and Keeleshwari Youth Club for her volunteering service and teaching in Keeleshwari Kindergarten School.
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…
Jathanna School – Moodubidri Host Family: Lenet Rodrigues It is since two weeks that I am staying with the Rodrigues family in the Padumarnadu, Moodubidri village which is close to Mangalore. My day starts at 8 a.m. with a nice cup of chai (tea) and a typical Indian breakfast. For example Dosa with chicken curry. Afterwards I take my bag and go to the Jathanna School from which I leave at 16 p.m. When I return another cup…
Teaching in an Indian school is a nice experience in many respect, but I think what I liked the most was learning the games played by the Indian children. My favorite game is called Lagori. It is a traditional Indian game, very popular in Karnataka. Here are the rules from what I understood of it. The official ones might be slightly different. Two teams play against each other. There are usually 3 to 6 players in each team. One team…
A first week report by volunteers of “Health on Stage” Camp held at Mysore / Bangalore scheduled for 6th to 26th August, 2012. “Health on Stage” is an initiative that intends to promote public health dialogue among community people on water and health issues using Forum Theater. On the 6th of august, 11 volunteers from Taiwan, Germany, Spain and France arrived in Mysore to share three weeks with each other. They are helped by 3 Indian team leaders (Dinesh, Bharathi…
India was my home for 22 days. The most influential days of my life! Brittny Machel Lowe shares her experience It has been 2 months and 5 days since I first step foot in India! Even though time has passed I am still absorbing every second I lived for the 22 days. I say lived because that’s what I/we did. India was my home for 22 days. The most influential days of my life! As I am…
So when you are ready to open your heart for a different culture and to live in one of the most impressive countries of the world, come to India…. I am Franziska Greiser, a 23 year old volunteer from Berlin, Germany. I arrived in India in the beginning of March and will stay for one year. It is really crazy, how fast the time flies by – I already completed my 4th month here! In my opinion the first…