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Volunteer Voice: “India has shaped me in a way that only this beautiful country can do”

Volunteer Voice: “India has shaped me in a way that only this beautiful country can do”

Going to India with FSL brought me so much of joy, adventure and growth!It gave me the chance to experience a hell lot of things, in a safe environment and with the right preparation. Whether it was going on my first chaotic bus rides, moving in with my host family, struggling with the language or getting on my first weekend trips. There were always people that supported me, that had prepared me or that were waiting for me to discuss…

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Environmental Awareness Rally in Mavinakatte Village

Environmental Awareness Rally in Mavinakatte Village

The FSL India HBP team, along with a group of work camp volunteers, worked together and organised a cleanup and awareness rally in Mavinakatte village. On 3rd March 2020, in the morning, a group of children from 4th-7th Standards from Government Middle Primary School, Mavinakatte gathered and talked about the climate change and global warming that is happening in the globe at the moment. After the discussion, they came as a group, joined with the FSL India volunteers and collected…

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German donates Dustbin – Udayavani Sudhina, 17th February 2020

German donates Dustbin – Udayavani Sudhina, 17th February 2020

FSL India and Yuva Brigade, Karvikeri jointly conducted an awareness programme for the Karvikeri riverside community on keeping the river clean. Kundapura Municipality area, Karvikeri have decided to place a dustbin at the riverside. FSL India’s volunteer Jan Muhle from Germany has donated the dustbin.

Nirvana Beach Festival 2020 – How can we stop plastic pollution?

Nirvana Beach Festival 2020 – How can we stop plastic pollution?

The long stretch of Kodi Beach is not just sand and palm trees; it’s unfortunately, also a lot of plastic. Plastic that is harming wildlife and spoiling what could have been a perfectly beautiful beach. To better this situation, FSL India has partnered with Clean Kundapura Project, who have been arranging weekly beach cleanings regularly. FSL India’s HBP team and our volunteers have participated in the beach cleanings on 40 occasions, where, along with the local community, they have cleared…

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Permaculture at CEL, Kundapur

Permaculture at CEL, Kundapur

Permaculture is a fundamental part of “Sustainable Agriculture” and it is what we have adopted at the “Centre for Experiential Living” (CEL), Kundapur. It is a whole system for providing human needs, using natural resources by maintaining its state of resilience, avoiding the use of limited resources. During December 2019, we reset the organic garden of the Centre using an organic “Synergic” method, based on the respect of the natural cycle, re-use of the resources already existing around the site,…

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Creating Art for Awareness

Creating Art for Awareness

How can we reach out to people, to make them reflect upon their behaviours and gain knowledge about how those behaviours effect the environment? At FSL India, we approach people in many different ways, in school sessions, writing these blog posts, creating activities to involve locals, and also using the media to reach even more people, to name some examples. Displaying messages about a sustainable future on public wall paintings is an artsy way to gain much attention. This week,…

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Climate Justice Campaign

Climate Justice Campaign

On 13th December 2019, on the occasion of ‘Kodi Habba’, The Clean Kundapura Project and FSL India jointly organised an awareness campaign about Anti-Plastic and Sea Turtle Conservation along with the FSL India volunteer’s staff and Clean Kundapura Project volunteers during the Koteshwara festival. The team members of Clean Kundapura Project and FSL India volunteers spread awareness among the festival visitors through distributing flyers and interacting with them. Since many shop keepers used plastics for packing items, we visited shops…

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Street cleaning in Kandlur

Street cleaning in Kandlur

Today’s dirt and ignorance will have to be cleaned up and paid for by tomorrow’s generations. FSL India’s HBP volunteers, staff and school teachers participating in street cleaning with schoolchildren in Kandlur on 13th of December, was an obvious example of that. Seeing schoolchildren climbing down into the trenches alongside of the road, collecting bottles, plastic wrappers, old paper etc. For these particular children, the street cleaning session was faced with enthusiasm. The children were divided into groups, each responsible…

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Winter Camp at CEL, Kundapur

Winter Camp at CEL, Kundapur

From 14th-16th of October, about 24 Indian children decided to spend a part of their holidays at the Winter Camp of FSL-India’s Centre for Experiential Living (CEL), Kundapur. Compared to our Adventure Camps, the Winter Camp was aimed not only at having a fun time, but also at education. The children came every morning, participated in all the different activities, got lunch and left around 4 pm. To wake them up, every day started with energisers. Right from the beginning,…

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FSL-India’s Kundapur Work Camp (1st – 5th April 2019) – Anuradha Miraji, Belgaum

FSL-India’s Kundapur Work Camp (1st – 5th April 2019) – Anuradha Miraji, Belgaum

I am Anuradha Miraji, writer – artist from Belgaum. I am environment-friendly, and love to get my hands in mud. A long proposed dream finally turned into reality on 31st March 2019, when I boarded the bus to reach Kundapur from Belgaum. I came across FSL-India, when I was searching for work camps online, where I could work directly in the farms; get my hands dirty and feel the sun. I enquired with the Bangalore office and then had a…

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