{"id":20443,"date":"2022-09-28T15:22:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T09:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/?p=20443"},"modified":"2022-09-28T15:22:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T09:52:22","slug":"india-is-a-country-of-rich-culture-and-unity-in-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/india-is-a-country-of-rich-culture-and-unity-in-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIndia is a country of rich culture and unity in diversity\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Three words: &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry&#8221;, &#8220;I love you&#8221;, &#8220;thank you&#8221;, are the maxim of Hawaiian philosophy baptized as ho&#8217;ponopono. And these words also be the same which we could to summarize our project at Chetana Trust. From August 29th that we landed in India until September 19th we cannot feel more grateful for the welcome, for the kindness, for the hospitality, for making us feel like one of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"461\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Along-with-Chethana-children-1024x461.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"20444\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Along-with-Chethana-children.jpeg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/?attachment_id=20444\" class=\"wp-image-20444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Along-with-Chethana-children-1024x461.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Along-with-Chethana-children-300x135.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Along-with-Chethana-children-768x346.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Along-with-Chethana-children-1536x691.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Along-with-Chethana-children-600x270.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Along-with-Chethana-children.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Living the experience with a local family contributes to a total immersion in their culture, despite the different customs that could separate us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At Chetana Trust in Mysore, we have been working with children with special needs, teaching English, Maths, Geography and sharing much-needed childhood playtime with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure 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decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Chethana-trust-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"20446\" data-link=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/?attachment_id=20446\" class=\"wp-image-20446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Chethana-trust-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Chethana-trust-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Chethana-trust-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Chethana-trust-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Chethana-trust-480x270.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Chethana-trust.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Neither the language (up to 24 different languages\u00a0are spoken in India), nor the time changes between\u00a0continents, nor the 8 different religions that coexist here in harmony, have defeated us in the aim of enjoying the experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"461\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/At-project-1-1024x461.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"20449\" data-link=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/?attachment_id=20449\" class=\"wp-image-20449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/At-project-1-1024x461.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/At-project-1-300x135.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/At-project-1-768x346.jpeg 768w, 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https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AIPC-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AIPC-1536x864.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AIPC-480x270.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/AIPC.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We have tried to be useful, respecting their customs and with the experience of these 3 weeks we can only say: &#8220;thank you India, thank you to Chetana Trust, thank you FSL, thank you AIPC Pandora. We love that you have made us feel here. We have de\ufb01nitely vibrated with your energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By Maria Teresa and Cova Donga (AIPC Spain &#8211; FSL India Volunteers)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-4 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Cultural-vist-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"20448\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Cultural-vist.jpeg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/?attachment_id=20448\" class=\"wp-image-20448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Cultural-vist-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Cultural-vist-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Cultural-vist-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Cultural-vist-203x270.jpeg 203w, https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Cultural-vist.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three words: &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry&#8221;, &#8220;I love you&#8221;, &#8220;thank you&#8221;, are the maxim of Hawaiian philosophy baptized as ho&#8217;ponopono. And these words also be the same which we could to summarize our project at Chetana Trust. From August 29th that we landed in India until September 19th we cannot feel more grateful for the welcome, for the kindness, for the hospitality, for making us feel like one of them. Living the experience with a local family contributes to a total immersion&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/india-is-a-country-of-rich-culture-and-unity-in-diversity\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"Closed","ping_status":"Closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437,1641,5,450,1640,1639],"tags":[1642,220,1615,1618,6,1579,1589,1643,890,755,1577,158],"class_list":["post-20443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-event-mysore","category-education","category-fslnews","category-general","category-mysore-3","category-stv","tag-breakingstereotypes","tag-cultural-diversity","tag-cultural-exchange","tag-experience","tag-fsl-india","tag-fsl-india-programs","tag-fsl-volunteering-programs","tag-international-volunteers","tag-short-term-volunteering","tag-volunteering-with-fsl-india","tag-volunteers-3","tag-volunteers-voice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20451,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20443\/revisions\/20451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}