Bravo! FSL-India’s Youth Development Program takes baby steps
Bravo! FSL-India’s YDP has taken its first baby steps…
Internship at CEL, Kundapur – Ujwal & Vikas, Delhi
We are 2 Law students, Ujjwal and Vikas, from Delhi, pursuing BA LLB (Hons). We came to FSL-India for an internship based on some major social issues that we wanted to work on. Being law students, we have always identified the areas that need urgent care and support for community welfare and development. This is one of the major aims of FSL-India – Community Development. We worked in the organization for 2 months and fulfilled our purpose to a certain…
Wish Tree at CEL
Hi everyone! Here we are letting you know about our hopefully fruitful wish tree at our Centre for Experiential Living! But, what is a wish tree? Everybody has at least one little wish. Some of them can be paid with money and some of them can be paid with time or in means of kind. At FSL-India we are a lot of people, so we also have a lot of wishes for our projects. However, some of them are not…
Visit to Fisherman Community
Mostly, once a week we, from the Sea Turtle Conservation program (STC), drive to one of the fisherman community’s here in the area of Kundapur. Meeting the fishermen is one of the most interesting tasks in our voluntary work. There we have the opportunity to talk with the fishermen about different problems e.g.the waste problem or overfishing that affect the fishermen as well as the sea turtles. The visit of the community is so important because we can learn from…
FSL-India celebrates Daan Utsav: Loknath Debnath, Akshay Goel, Poojan Rastogi, Shikha – MBA Institute of Management, Christ University, Bengaluru
FSL-India participated in India’s very first GivingTuesday, which kicked off Daan Utsav 2017, where people all across our country entered into the spirit of giving and shared happiness with the local communities by contributing either in cash, kind or by service. Indian Oil Corporation very generously provided free stall space to NGOs at Bangalore to sell their products and create awareness for the organization. FSL-India’s stall towards the support of the migrant children of Kundapur sold paper products made by…
Ayudha Pooja
On Friday 29th September, in Kundapura FSL India- CEL, staff and volunteers, totally 20 members participated in Ayudha Pooja. Why did we celebrate it in CEL? CEL is Community based center and FSL India is a non-political, non-religious & non-governmenalt organization. We are an institution, which promotes Pease through cultural exchange. This is reason why we celebrate all types of festivals in order to celebrate all cultures around. In this way we celebrated Ayudha Pooja in CEL. Ayudha Pooja part…
Azolla Training at CEL, Kundapur
Greetings from FSL-India’s Centre for Experiential Living, Kundapur! As part of our training goal of empowering and educating all our staff and volunteers, we had a new training this month, conducted by Mr. C. Doreswamy, our Joint Director. As agriculture plays an important role in rural areas (like the area where CEL is located), finding new ways of enabling the local community to make food production more sustainable can have a huge, beneficial impact on the local environment, as well…
YDP’s Book Drive
The first chapter of the Book Drive was kick-started in February 2017. FSL-India’s Youth Development Program helped a Naxalite-affected school in Kapsi, Chattisgarh set up a library. Posters were put up in colleges and book stores in and around the city to encourage people to donate books. Goobe’s Book Republic in Bangalore was one of the biggest donors for the bookdrive. We successfully collected close to 300 books for the school in Kapsi. The book drive is a bi-monthly affair….
WC 630 – Dharamshala: Marcy Holden, Canada
When I first got to Dharamshala to meet up with my FSL Volunteer group I had no idea what to expect. I had read about the culture and the project we would be working on but nothing could have prepared me for the experience I would have during my stay there. Dharamshala is so entirely different from my home but the beautiful guest house in Dharamkot allowed me all the comforts of home, while also directly immersing me in to…
Teaching Kannada Language at CEL, Kundapur – Anusha Adiga
They are not from India but they came with purpose. They decided to live and work for long time in India. Language is one the basic barrier to communicate with local people so I am here to teach Kannada. My Name is Anusha Adiga, 21 year old and I am working in a NGO. My home is near to FSL-India’s Centre for Experiential Living and I am teaching Kannada for 8 volunteers from Germany. This is first time that I am…