{"id":4762,"date":"2012-07-25T12:28:25","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T06:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/?p=4762"},"modified":"2012-07-25T12:28:25","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T06:58:25","slug":"long-term-volunteers-new-arrivals-in-july-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/long-term-volunteers-new-arrivals-in-july-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Term Volunteers \u2013 New Arrivals in July 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/26.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4767\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/26-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"157\" \/><\/a>In early July 2012, a group of 14 volunteers from 6 countries arrived FSL- India for long-term volunteering program. FSL-India organised a week-long orientation for volunteers in Bangalore and Kundapur. While twelve volunteers participated in the orientation in Bangalore two were given orientation at Kundapur. The orientation was scheduled from 2<sup>nd<\/sup> to 68<sup>th<\/sup> July 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0FSL-India team cordially welcomed the volunteers with garlands of jasmine, vermilion tilak marks on the forehead and Aarathi. Several sessions were conducted to provide input on various topics. <a href=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/17.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-4768\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/17-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"165\" \/><\/a>Introduction about FSL-India and its work, Indian life style, roles and responsibilities of the volunteers, expectations and fears among the volunteers, setting up aims and objectives and conflict management were the major topics dealt with. Volunteers had the opportunity to learn Kannada Language and during evening hour sessions were organised to introduce them on Indian culture. They visited few projects and interacted with the local community as part of inter-cultural learning and experience sharing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">During the orientation volunteers were asked to write a self-addressed letter to make comparative analysis between how the situation was in the beginning and how it could be when they accomplish their assignments. Host Family Tea Party, Project introduction and project visit were organised during the orientation. Final Talk was also organised to share their thoughts with the staff. Following is the brief description of volunteers\u2019 profile:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Dorothea Reichert from Germany<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Irina Blanche from France<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Natacha D\u00e9pit from Belgium<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Margot Deveze from France<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Claire Pattn from France<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Anais Pauchon from France<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Audrey Salman from France<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Marc Stegemann from Germany<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Claire Illac from Belgium<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Malte Olaf Werner from Germany<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Kusaka Miyako from Japan<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Stephanie Gut from Switzerland<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Annick Kandelaars from Netherlands<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Eva Maria Hund from Germany<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early July 2012, a group of 14 volunteers from 6 countries arrived FSL- India for long-term volunteering program. FSL-India organised a week-long orientation for volunteers in Bangalore and Kundapur. While twelve volunteers participated in the orientation in Bangalore two were given orientation at Kundapur. The orientation was scheduled from 2nd to 68th July 2012. \u00a0 \u00a0FSL-India team cordially welcomed the volunteers with garlands of jasmine, vermilion tilak marks on the forehead and Aarathi. Several sessions were conducted to provide&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/long-term-volunteers-new-arrivals-in-july-2012\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"Closed","ping_status":"Closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14],"tags":[147,154,155,156,153,99,157,158],"class_list":["post-4762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fslnews","category-orientation","tag-community-development","tag-education","tag-indian-life-style","tag-inter-cultrual-learning","tag-international-volunteering","tag-international-year-of-volunteering","tag-un-volunteering","tag-volunteers-voice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}