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Summer Project at De Mercede – May 2019: Ruth Hamschmidt, Germany

Summer Project at De Mercede – May 2019: Ruth Hamschmidt, Germany

As the summer holidays for the government schools in India last 8 weeks, all the volunteers from FSL-India’s teaching project were sent to a summer project. Paula, Luka, Tabea and I went  to an orphanage called De Mercedes orphanage in Deralakatte, near Mangalore. Our tasks were to teach some English or Maths to the children, paint the windows on the roof as well as some cupboards, to stitch the uniforms for the children for the new school year, and to…

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Summer Project at Varanashi Organic Farms – Lina Scholz, Germany

Summer Project at Varanashi Organic Farms – Lina Scholz, Germany

During their summer project in April and May, 12 volunteers met at Varanashi Organic Farms. Our working days started with putting out the cocoa to dry and after that, different kinds of work was done. Mainly, they we cleaned the water channels in the cocoa plantations for the rainy season. Fridays were the cocoa pod opening days and later on, in May, we started to prepare the farm for a climbing event called “Psicobloc“. This is a form of solo…

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