{"id":18945,"date":"2020-03-20T10:53:47","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T05:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/?p=18945"},"modified":"2020-03-20T10:53:51","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T05:23:51","slug":"car-festival-brings-cheers-to-volunteers-nh-19-mid-term-evaluation-with-sowkoor-local-festival-february-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/car-festival-brings-cheers-to-volunteers-nh-19-mid-term-evaluation-with-sowkoor-local-festival-february-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Car Festival Brings Cheers to Volunteers: NH-19 Mid Term Evaluation with Sowkoor Local Festival \u2013 February 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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FSL India\u2019s LTV team, Kundapura organised a Mid-Term Evaluation for our Long Term Volunteers. The program was held for 3 days, from 19th<\/sup>-21st<\/sup> February 2020. In total, 28 volunteers from AFS, EG and IJGD took part in this evaluation. The MTE was organised at FSL India\u2019s Centre for Experiential Living, Shettrakatte. The objective of the MTE is to ensure that the volunteers understand about their project, host family and the intercultural acceptance through evaluation and to help participants to prepare themselves for their future actions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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LTV Kundapur team\norganised many different activities on the first day. We discussed the volunteers\u2019\n expectations and fears, the challenges\nfaced by them and how to stay motivated. We also conducted some games for group\nbonding and some energisers. In the evening, the volunteers had a one-to-one\nmeeting with their coordinators<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It was a smaller\ngroup than last year. This time, Ms Thea Karl from AFS visited our Evaluation\nprogramme. It was nice that she was with us all the 3 days. After the 1st<\/sup>\nday, we all visited the famous Sowkoor Car festival with our AFS buddy, Ms Thea.\nSo, it brought energy to all our volunteers and they participated in the big\nTemple Car Pulling ceremony, with more than 300 people. All the people were\nvery happy when the volunteers joined the ceremony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The second day began with energisers after Mr Ragland explained\nabout the outlook on the future\nand their 4 months\u2019 plan in India. This was followed by an open forum, where\nthey discussed their future plans in Germany after this volunteering service\nand what they had learnt through the intercultural exposure that they had in\nIndia, so far.  All these discussions made volunteers to\nstrengthen their motivation for their remaining days in India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On the third day, the session was very interesting. The volunteers had to talk about a situation where their Indian Host Family reacted differently than a German family would have, their understanding on the differences in reaction, what they learnt about the local culture from their host family and in what way they were able to influence their host family. The challenges faced by them were also discussed and possible solutions were suggested by the FSL India LTV team. During the open discussion, details about the summer projects and holidays were shared, as also the Final Evaluation details. All the LTV staff felt the\nevaluation was successful, in spite of a few challenges faced<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Finally, the program finished with the volunteers\u2019 feedback: <\/p>\n\n\n\n