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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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Our Memorable days at Hand-in-Land, Kundapura!

Our Memorable days at Hand-in-Land, Kundapura!

We are Jang Seeun and Daeum Kim from South Korea. We had an opportunity to visit India, especially Kundapura to do a 2-week work camp at Centre for Experiential Living – FSL India, Shettrakatte. Kundapura is a small town surrounded by the Arabian Sea and backwaters, another side is the Western Ghats and countless temples. It was a peaceful and such a spectacular spot to see! 6th to 19th January – 2 weeks, it was amazing times which we have…

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My first 100th Monkey Session – Asha Elisha, Public Relations & Documentation, FSL India

My first 100th Monkey Session – Asha Elisha, Public Relations & Documentation, FSL India

Having heard so much about FSL India’s 100th Monkey programme, I decided to visit St Theresa’s School, and experience first-hand the ‘workings’ of our programme. I set off with Madhuri, and picked up Madhumathi (FSL India’s facilitators at Bangalore) along the way. My first impression when I walked into the classroom was a sea of smiling faces. The children were excited to see me (a new face always generates interest) and a babel of voices broke out. “Namaste, Madam”, “Good…

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Mural painting at ‘Nirvana’ Beach Festival

Mural painting at ‘Nirvana’ Beach Festival

We are going to the beach! On a regular workday… no wonder all the other volunteers are jealous of HBP volunteers’ work. It is a great variety of tasks in our projects. Currently, 2 of the 4 HBP-projects at CEL are occupied and we, as the 5 international volunteers mostly give sessions on our topics in government primary schools. But that’s not all… today we are heading for something different. The first Nirvana beach festival at Kodi beach walk is…

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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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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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