I am in India for 3 months and I want to report about my experiences here. My project is to teach English in the Government Higher Primary School, Anagalli. There are only 50 students and 3 other teachers. My daily work starts at 9:30 am and is finished at 3:30 pm. All come together for prayer before the lessons start. After that, I teach Nalli Kalli (1st-3rd Standards) and 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th Standards. We sing English songs, or…
From the 10th-20th October, we worked with 20 German volunteers on Varanashi Organic Farms. Our work was to fertilise different trees: cacao, nutmeg, arecanut and coconut trees. We fed the plants with 45 tons of manure and covered 15 acres with it. We worked in teams of 5-10. So, we split the work in different steps. That was very good and effective. Some people filled the buckets, some drove the trollies with the buckets to the plants and some put…
FSL India sent 2 volunteers to us from Germany named Sophie Mueller and Veronika Michel. They were staying in our home from August 2018 to June 2019. During this period, both of them were very helpful to our home. They participated actively in our home activities. They helped us to develop spoken English and communication skills for our children. They spent quality time with our children. They are good in engaging with our children during play and festival time. They…
From 30th September to 15th October, 15 Argentinian youth from Universidad Siglo 21, Buenos Aires visited ODP-Mysore and Hunsur to participate in FSL India’s work camp. The theme of the camp was Culture, Education and Nature. The Argentinian youth had an educational and inspiring time during their 3 weeks in India. They began their experience by an exposure visit to an agricultural farm. Here, they watched a demo of bio pesticides and prepared ‘Jeevamruta’ and ‘Panchagavya’ organic fertilisers along with…
Baby Sarah’s Home, a residential home for persons with Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Mental Retardation, Multiple disabilities and Orphan children is highly pleased to record this testimonial for the Volunteering Practice done by Ms Leonie Weiler from Germany, for a period of 12 months, from 8th August 2018 to 18th August 2019, through FSL India, Bangalore. Ms Leonie Weiler provided her valuable service at our home for the orphan and destitute, children with Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Mental Retardation and Multiple Disabilities…
I’m Sophie von Rohden, a 19 year old volunteer from Germany. I have started as a volunteer at FSL India’s Tent School project in the month of September 2019, at Baikady Tent community. In the beginning, there were around 7 children who were coming more or less regularly to the Tent School. Right now, there are 5 children who are regularly coming. Sharavathi, who is a teacher and I started with teaching the English alphabet as well as numbers…
My name is Yellappa. I am 12 years old. My father Yemmannurappa is a mason and my mother Gangamma is a labourer. We live in the Baikady Tent Community. My parents came to Kundapur from Katapur to look for work some years ago. I could not attend regular school because there was no one to advise my parents on the importance of education and also, there was no school close by. So, my parents decided to send me to FSL-India’s…
FSL-India’s work camp WC-827 was held for 2 weeks, starting from 21st January 2019 and ending with the final evaluation on 3rd February 2019. The theme was Sustainable Agriculture/ Culture/ Environment. The team consisted of Andrea Granata from Italy, Seoyeon Kim and Jeon Hui Yeon from South Korea. The team followed the work camp schedule for 2 weeks, and made the camp successful. First of all, we went to schools for mural painting, helping in teaching Basic English, wall painting,…
We are Indian students of FSL-India’s 22nd Happy Move Camp – D team members from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University College of Engineering, Ananthapuram (JNTUCEA). We had a very great time and good experience with the South Korean volunteers in the camp and our team leader, Manjunath B from FSL-India The Korean volunteers mingled with us very well, we had great interaction with the Koreans even with the mentors, they were very helpful and caring. We did renovation work at Government…
80 Korean volunteers, 16 Indian volunteers, 4 mentors, 1 chief mentor, 1 nurse, 14 FSL-India staff, 4 Better World staff from India and South Korea worked together in a village called Kurubavandanapalli, in Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh during this work camp. I was an FSL-India Team Leader for Team A of 25 participants – 20 Korean Volunteers + 1 mentor + 4 Indian volunteers all working together at Kurubavandanapalli village for Education and Renovation. Here, the activities were constructing community toilets,…