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Our Young Volunteer – Marie Cäecilie Schmidt, Regular Teaching Project: S Sudha, Teacher, Panchayat Union Primary School, Chettipedu

Our Young Volunteer – Marie Cäecilie Schmidt, Regular Teaching Project: S Sudha, Teacher, Panchayat Union Primary School, Chettipedu

I am S Sudha, a teacher at Panchayat Union Primary School, Chettipedu. My School headmistress’ name is Mrs Regina Mary. Since there were only 2 teachers in our school, our headmistress invited a volunteer to our school. Our volunteer’s name is Cäecilie, who is from Germany. She arrived at our school in November 2018. My outlook on the German people was they were enormously nice, too. At the beginning, there was difficulty in communication for her with our children. A…

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Farming, Volunteers and FSL-India 2017-18: Rahul Dayalu, Project Head, Shri Gurumahanteshwara – Sustainable Agriculture

Farming, Volunteers and FSL-India 2017-18: Rahul Dayalu, Project Head, Shri Gurumahanteshwara – Sustainable Agriculture

Our association with FSL-India has grown further in 2017 and 2018. FSL-India and their volunteers have already become an integral part of our project. The farm was new and mostly barren in 2016-2017. There was a lot of work that happened in that period, right from land preparation to the plantation of crops, putting fencing, building a farmhouse, installing our drip irrigation system, and so on. The village school management, teachers and students were not used to foreigners. I was…

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Cultural Event –Pondicherry, April 2019

Cultural Event –Pondicherry, April 2019

On 24thApril 2019, FSL-India’s Pondicherry 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 Religion and the Nataraja temple. Nataraja temple, also referred to as the Chidambaram Nataraja temple or Thillai Nataraja temple, is a Hindu temple dedicated to Nataraja – Shiva…

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Edu HK Work Camp: 20th-31st March 2019

Edu HK Work Camp: 20th-31st March 2019

FSL-India is a youth development organisation which promotes both national as well as international volunteering. Twice every year, we facilitate the Leadership Enhancement and Development (LEAD) programme of the Education University of Hong Kong for their students, with cultural exposure in Karnataka. From the 20th-31st March this year, 15 students visited India with a focus on intercultural learning. They toured Mysore and also Bangalore, absorbing the rich heritage of these cities. In addition to this, they volunteered their services at…

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Cultural Event at Kundapur for the FSL-India Volunteers: Holi Celebration!!

Cultural Event at Kundapur for the FSL-India Volunteers: Holi Celebration!!

On the 22nd of March, 3 FSL-India volunteers Hannan, Linda and Orane had the super occasion to participate in the Cultural Event organized by FSL-India at Kundapura. The Holi Celebration is called also as the Festival of love and colours. It starts every year by ligting up the bonfire the night before the day of Holi and this process symbolises the triumph of good over bad. The volunteers met at 10 am with FSL-India’S Chief Coordiator, Dinesh at the Shri…

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Shri Siddhi Vinayaka Residential School visits FSL-India’s CEL for 100th Monkey Session

Shri Siddhi Vinayaka Residential School visits FSL-India’s CEL for 100th Monkey Session

On the 7th March 2019 FSL-India’s Centre for Experiential Living received 40 students and 3 teachers from the Shri Siddhi Vinayaka Residential School located in the nearby village of Hattiangadi. The reason for this visit was to do the last 100th Monkey session in a special way, learning and discovering more about FSL-India, and the different projects it runs. Moreover, this opportunity also gave room to do several activities in such a natural environment as our CEL. The students arrived…

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Final Evaluation for Experiment Germany volunteers – March 2019

Final Evaluation for Experiment Germany volunteers – March 2019

FSL-India’s LTV Kundapur team organised the Final-Evaluation for our Long Term Volunteers from Experiment Germany. The programme was held for 1 day, on 25th March 2019. In total, 8 volunteers from EG took part in this evaluation. The FE was organised at FSL-India’s Centre for Experiential Living. Through the FE, the LTV-Kundapur team collected the volunteers’ final feedback and impact study details about their project, host family and their intercultural experience. On the first day, LTV’s Kundapur team organised different…

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Wall Painting Project – “Who runs the World? GIRLS!” – Kyra Trific, Germany

Wall Painting Project – “Who runs the World? GIRLS!” – Kyra Trific, Germany

I am Kyra from Germany. I am currently working in an orphanage called “Free Basics Girls Home” which is located in Bangalore. My main tasks here are teaching basic English, playing and dancing with the children and supervising them. It is very heart-warming to me, to have such a beautiful connection with them, and to empower them in who they are. Of course, the idea to paint exactly this phrase on the wall, came to me while I was listening…

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Contribution of FSL-India’s volunteers to Shri Gurumahanteshwara Sustainable Agriculture Project – Rahul Dayalu

Contribution of FSL-India’s volunteers to Shri Gurumahanteshwara Sustainable Agriculture Project – Rahul Dayalu

I am Rahul Dayalu, an IT engineer turned farmer and writer. I have been associated with FSL-India to host volunteers in our project since November, 2016. I was looking at pictures of our project just received from Miriam, a volunteer from FSL-India, who worked with us for few months. I cannot believe it’s been more than a year we started this project in my village S Hoskote near Mysore, Karnataka, India. Those photos speak more than words on our initial…

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The Joy of Learning: Raju, Nisarga Grama, Sparsha Trust, Bangalore

The Joy of Learning: Raju, Nisarga Grama, Sparsha Trust, Bangalore

Hello to one and all! My name is Raju. Since April 2018, I am working at Nisarga Grama, Sparsha Trust. As the person in charge of Nisarga Grama, I am responsible for all the 133 children which are living here at the moment. In the morning. the children wake up at 6 am to do yoga and their prayers. After that. they get ready for school, eat their breakfast and leave for school around 9 am. Between 3.30 pm and…

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