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‘We met as strangers and left as good friends’ – Voltra, Hong Kong’s Coorg experience with FSL India: 21st-25th December 2019

‘We met as strangers and left as good friends’ – Voltra, Hong Kong’s Coorg experience with FSL India: 21st-25th December 2019

16 volunteers from Hong Kong spent their Christmas in India with us. During this time they got the opportunity to learn about coffee making in Coorg. They visited a coffee estate and a coffee factory and they worked on the estate. Other than learning about coffee, they spent time with orphan children during Christmas and provided them with lots of good memories in and around Coorg.  Here is what the Voltra volunteers have to say about their time at Coorg:…

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LTV Cultural visit to Cave Temple – Keradi Moodugallu Temple inspires Volunteers with longing to come again

LTV Cultural visit to Cave Temple – Keradi Moodugallu Temple inspires Volunteers with longing to come again

The LTV monthly cultural visit was held on 10th January 2020 with Mr.Venkatesh, Victoria, Miriam, Agale and Korean work camp volunteers who work on the Sea Turtle Conservation and Sustainable Agriculture projects at FSL-India’s Centre for Experiential Living, Kundapur. One of the programmes at FSL-India is a cultural visit, where we take our regular volunteers to any cultural and historical places which are located in or around Kundapur. All our volunteers gathered at FSL India’s Centre for Experiential Living (CEL),…

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FSL India’s HBP team visits SELCO Foundation, Manipal

FSL India’s HBP team visits SELCO Foundation, Manipal

We saw a lot of clever machines last week in Manipal! Rope making machine Sewing machine Photocopier Milking machine Pottery machine FSL India’s HBP-Team from Kundapur was invited to SELCO Foundation’s event of presenting a new batch of useful products for small businesses. What all these inventions had in common was their independency from the power grid. Even though many of the inventions shown in this event were technical machines with the need of energy supply, SELCO Foundation managed to…

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LTV Orientation – December 2019

LTV Orientation – December 2019

In the month of December 2019, FSL India, Kundapura hosted 3 Long Term Volunteers from Italy, France and Denmark at our CEL (Centre for Experiential Living), at Kundapur. Our volunteers underwent different practical, theoretical and outdoor sessions for their successful journey in India and actively took part in each session. FSL India’s facilitators have taken extra care in organising this Orientation, in which some sessions included conflict management, roles and responsibilities, culture and Indian lifestyle, safety guidelines information, project introduction…

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Christmas Eve Celebrations 2019 at CEL, Kundapur

Christmas Eve Celebrations 2019 at CEL, Kundapur

Christmas at 30° C: HBP Volunteers celebrate Christmas far away from home. For most volunteers, Christmas is a family holiday, so this year will, for sure, be different. Sharing stories about our different Christmas celebrations, it is apparent that the traditions vary much, not only from nation to nation but also from family to family. What will Christmas be like in our part of India and in the new context of the “CEL Family”? (CEL is short for Centre of…

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LTV Cultural Event at Kollur on 19th December 2019 – Kollur Mookambika Goddess blesses FSL India’s volunteers

LTV Cultural Event at Kollur on 19th December 2019 – Kollur Mookambika Goddess blesses FSL India’s volunteers

“There’s the 9 o’clock bus”, Dinesh my coordinator says. We are still waiting for Miri, another volunteer and we realise we will have to take the next bus. The 3 of us are going to Kollur for a cultural visit today. “There’s Miri!” I exclaim as Miri descends from the 9 o’clock bus and walks towards us. We burst into laughter. She is right on time, and didn’t know what bus Dinesh had planned for us to take. Oh, well,…

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LTV Cultural Event, Pondicherry – December 2019

LTV Cultural Event, Pondicherry – December 2019

On 16th December 2019, FSL-India, Pondicherry’s coordinator organised a Cultural Event (CE) for our regular LTV volunteers. Every month, we organise a cultural event for our regular volunteers and we take them to any cultural and historical places which are located in and around Pondicherry. This month, the Cultural Event was focused on Religion, the Nataraja temple and Thillai Kaali, at Chidambaram. The Nataraja Temple, also referred to as the Chidambaram Nataraja temple or Thillai Nataraja temple, is a Hindu…

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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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LTV Cultural Event, Mysore– December 2019

LTV Cultural Event, Mysore– December 2019

On 9th December 2019, FSL India, Mysore’s coordinator organised a Cultural Event (CE) for our regular LTV volunteers. Every month, we organise a cultural event for our regular volunteers and we take them to any cultural and historical places which are located in and around Mysore. This month, the Cultural Event was focused on Nature – KRS Dam, Mandya. The Brindavan Gardens is a garden located in the Mandya district of the state of Karnataka, India. It lies adjoining the…

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Contact Person and Host Family Workshop – Kundapur and Mangalore

Contact Person and Host Family Workshop – Kundapur and Mangalore

FSL India, LTV team organised a “Contact Person and Host Family Workshop” on 15th November 2019 at FSL India’s CEL (Centre for Experiential Living), Kundapur for both Udupi and Mangalore zones. Totally, 52 participants including the contact person and host families from different places attended the workshop. The workshop started with energisers and games, and the participants enjoyed themselves and had a lot of fun. The CPHF workshop mainly focused on safety, group discussion on how best the host family…

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