Yesterday, I lay aimlessly on my bed, staring at the ceiling fan rotating at its lowest speed, wondering how I barely noticed its absence over the past year. Hoping to find something better to do, I picked up my phone and saw that I had a message from a friend – another volunteer who’d returned to Bangalore from Berlin last week. “Me too” read the message, a response to one I’d sent a few hours earlier saying “I want to…
At FSL-India, we feel that volunteering abroad is an experience that every Indian should try at some point in time. Our Outbound program offers this magical journey to all individuals between the ages of 18-29 years. Last year, Margret Johnson, Samson E Kanth, Canute D Souza, Nikhil Thomas, Gitanjali Srinivas Murthi, Prashanth Basavana Gowdru, Fedora Deepanjali, Robin Prakash and Anushri Joshi stepped into a plane and flew away to the other side of the world. It was a dream come true, an unimaginable tryst…