FSL-India Kundapur team observed International volunteers Day in Chaitanya Special School on 5th December 2014. The team volunteered to help and cleaned the play ground and installed playing material (marry ground) which was donated by volunteers. Mr. Daya, Mrs. Vaz, Mr. Jeevan, Ms. Manjula, Mr. Simon, Ms. Katharina, Ms. Julie, Mr. Pièrre, Ms. Laura and Mr. Tilman participated in the program.
In the Happy Move Camp villages such as Thennari and Uthukadu in Kancheepuram District of Tamil Nadu, “International Volunteers’ Day” was observed involving the school Children. The celebration kick started one week before 5th December, the International Volunteers’ Day. LTV volunteer Ms. Hannah visited the schools of the above villages and shared with the children her pleasing experience of volunteering. And finally the drawing and oratorical competitions were announced to be held on 4th December 2014 at Thennari and 5th…
On 5th December, We FSL-India and all Long term volunteers from Bangalore have celebrated the International volunteers day at The association for the Mentally challenged Children in Bangalore. Our team has done small renovation activities like wall painting, cleaning the ground and making Kitchen garden..
I am Ms. Hannah, from Germany, placed in MVP project with FSL India Chennai Facility. I and another German LTV volunteer Ms. Sara were invited by Mr. Gunasekar, one of the FSL Staff in Chennai, for his house warming ceremony on 27th November 2014. It was very impressive that Gunasekar and his family welcomed us happily as if we have been known for longer years. Truly, I was known to Gunasekar for only few days and Ms. Sara doesn’t known…
After the news of FSL India’s long term volunteer in germany, Sony, we will follow the adventures of Jai, from Bangalore. He joined FSL in mid 2013 as a local volunteer for a workcamp and was later accepted to represent India in a year-long project in France, in the regional delegation of our partner Solidarités Jeunesses. After a lot of difficulties to have all the administration in order, he finally flew mid October for his Voluntary Service. Here are his…
HBP team organized Sea-turtle Conservation (STC) Work camp from 10th to 21st November-2014. This is the 2nd work-camp of the Sea Turtle Conservation Project, which took place in Uppunda-Madikal village. Despite of only one volunteer from France arriving for the work-camp, the two weeks of raising awareness about sea turtles was a great success.
I’m Jade Brady and I’m from Ireland..Here is my experience about India.. Well…were to start with India….from the minute you exit the airport every sense is overloaded. There is just so many people, so much of noise, lots of color and smells. There are just so many new things to see in India, it is almost hard to concentrate as your eye is constantly being caught by something new and interesting. It is by far the best people watching place…
There is a another step forward in the History of Happy Move Camp in India with the visit of partner to finalize the camp. The previsit of the partners for 14th HMC of partners BWO – South Korea, Hyundai Motors India, FSL India scheduled between 10th – 12th November 2014. The purpose of the visit includes (i) selection of the villages for 14th HMC; (ii) Logistics arrangement of the camp (iii) cultural visits during the camp. The villages shorlisted by…
Hyundai HYSCO, FSL India and BWO – South Korea collaboratively work for “Global Social Technology and Design Challenge in India”. The simple technologies, appropriate for day to day life using available resources in the community itself, are promoted through this collaborative effort. Once in a year, the above said technologies developed by the Korean Students and demonstrated among the school children and community. The collaborative took step forward to make it more sustainable of the effort undertaken on these line….
During Dasara holidays HBP – Tent school team of FSL-India, had successfully conducted a Winter camp at the Heskatturu and Yedthadi tent school and 18 children were benefited. Camp held from 13th to 28th October-14. During the camp, tent school team organized various activities like Mask making, Paper craft, Visited Mandarthi temple, Painting, balloon game, Fruit guessing, Memory games and group bounding games. This camp helped children to make interaction between regular school and tent school children. International volunteers…