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My memorable time in the Sea Turtle Conservation project – Miriam Württemberger, Gerrit Lange and Aglae Bullich, Germany

My memorable time in the Sea Turtle Conservation project – Miriam Württemberger, Gerrit Lange and Aglae Bullich, Germany

For about 4 months, we have been conducting sessions about sea turtles at 6 different schools, for 5th to 8th Standards. We are 3 volunteers from the Sea Turtle Conservation project and, together with Manjesh and Manju, we try to create awareness on sea turtles in the coastal area of Karnataka. At the beginning, we spent a lot of time gathering information and creating a structure for our session. We also learned a lot by ourselves, as we only knew…

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We made the people to think through our paintings!

We made the people to think through our paintings!

In the month of February, volunteers from FSL India’s Home Based Projects have done awareness painting on 2 walls in front of Kandloor Primary School, with environmental messages about recycling and 4 smaller visualisations of different ecosystems in Nempu School. Our main goal of the pictures is to increase awareness about topics of sustainability and how the people passing by can have a positive effect in their everyday life. We had drawn one more awareness message painting in Navunda Badakere…

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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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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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Volunteering at CEL, Kundapur – Niklas Dupont, Long Term Volunteer, Germany

Volunteering at CEL, Kundapur – Niklas Dupont, Long Term Volunteer, Germany

I arrived here at CEL on 5th August this year, together with around 40 other German volunteers. I was the only one to stay longer than the orientation week. So, I had the chance to get to know the place uninstructed by other foreigners. The Centre for Experiential Living (CEL) is located close (30 minutes) to the town of Kundapura, in the State of Karnataka. It contains a number of dormitories (where people stay during various events like our orientation…

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