{"id":7281,"date":"2014-05-13T15:30:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T10:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/?p=7281"},"modified":"2014-05-13T15:30:20","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T10:00:20","slug":"constructionenvironmenttibetan-culture-in-dharamshala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/constructionenvironmenttibetan-culture-in-dharamshala\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction\/Environment\/Tibetan Culture in Dharamshala"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \"Wall<\/a>From the 3rd<\/sup> of March to the 23rd<\/sup> of March, we had two volunteers from the United States participate in a Construction\/Environment\/Tibetan<\/strong> Culture themed workcamp in Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh<\/strong>. Even though it was a small group, our two team leaders aided the two international volunteers to achieve satisfaction and fulfilment that they sought through volunteerism.They actively took part in various activities including painting a school wall and black board, and educational drawing at Dharamkot Government Primary School<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The two motivated volunteers conducted sessions on health and hygiene awareness<\/strong> to the school children, and almost 40 children benefited<\/strong> from this activity. The volunteers also cleaned an open field<\/strong> located in McLeodganj<\/strong> along with the staff from a local NGO called Waste Warriors<\/strong>, with an aim to promote awareness among the local community in keeping their surroundings clean.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 As part of their inter-cultural learning, the volunteers had the opportunity to interact with Tibetan monks. They also took part in a Tibetan cooking session. Although the volunteers were busy doing all of these activities, they had just enough spare time at the end of their stay to take part in a site seeing excursion to a Hindu temple, Baghsu waterfalls, Dalai Lama Temple, the Tibet Museum, and the Tibetan Children\u2019s Village community. The volunteers also did a presentation about their country traditions and cultural aspects for the school children.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0   \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 From the 3rd of March to the 23rd of March, we had two volunteers from the United States participate in a Construction\/Environment\/Tibetan Culture themed workcamp in Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh. Even though it was a small group, our two team leaders aided the two international volunteers to achieve satisfaction and fulfilment that they sought through volunteerism.They actively took part in various activities including painting a school wall and black board, and educational drawing at Dharamkot Government…<\/p>\n

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