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Our Volunteer in our Home – Janet, Contact Person, El-Shaddai Charitable Trust

Our Volunteer in our Home – Janet, Contact Person, El-Shaddai Charitable Trust

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…

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Argentinian university student volunteers visit Mysore & Hunsur

Argentinian university student volunteers visit Mysore & Hunsur

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…

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Transforming the Tent School

Transforming the Tent School

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…

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LTV Cultural visit to Cave Temple at Kamalashile – Dinesh Saranga, LTV Chief Coordinator, Kundapur zone

LTV Cultural visit to Cave Temple at Kamalashile – Dinesh Saranga, LTV Chief Coordinator, Kundapur zone

The cultural visit for FSL India’s Long Term Volunteers was held on 11th October 2019 with Miriam, who came in September and worked on the Sea Turtle Conservation project at our 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. So, in the morning around 8.40 am, we met at the last bus stop…

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The aura of Auroville: LTV’s Cultural Event at Pondicherry – October 2019

The aura of Auroville: LTV’s Cultural Event at Pondicherry – October 2019

On 17th October 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 Nature/Religion. Auroville (City of Dawn) is an experimental township in Villupuram district, mostly in the state of Tamil Nadu, India with some parts in the Union Territory…

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