{"id":9373,"date":"2015-09-01T17:57:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T12:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/?p=9373"},"modified":"2015-09-01T17:57:46","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T12:27:46","slug":"my-experience-in-hosting-international-volunteers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/my-experience-in-hosting-international-volunteers\/","title":{"rendered":"My experience in hosting international volunteers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My name is Praveenkumar and my wife name is Veena and we are blessed with a cute and well behaved son name Om, who is 5 years old studying in upper kindergarten.\u00a0I work as a manager at Water Literacy Foundation, Bangalore. We are into water conservation and offer services across rural, urban and industrial India.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Marie-with-my-son-Om.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9706 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Marie-with-my-son-Om.jpg\" alt=\"Volunteer-India-Host family\" width=\"322\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Anna-Russia-in-my-native-town-for-family-program.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9705 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Anna-Russia-in-my-native-town-for-family-program.jpg\" alt=\"Volunteer-India-Host family\" width=\"246\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Paul-Germany-with-my-uncle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9707 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Paul-Germany-with-my-uncle.jpg\" alt=\"Volunteer-India-Host family\" width=\"233\" height=\"311\" \/><\/a>I\u2019m proud to be a host family with FSL India. I knew FSL India since 2011 through Mr. Stephen (Ex-Staff). I started my relationship with FSL as a contact person for international volunteers at Water Literacy Foundation. Over the span of 5 years I had an opportunity and experience of working with international youths as volunteers to our organization. So far we\u2019ve received 13 volunteers, 7 of them were from Germany and they\u2019ve done their invaluable service to our organization and we sincerely appreciate all of them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the year 2014 October, I got an opportunity to become a host family to FSL. My first experience of hosting two German girls name \u201cJoanna and Marie for 4 months\u201d. It was a really an amazing experience to get to know their culture and share our culture. The volunteers Paul, Tycho, Jakob and Johan are kind nature, simplicity and good manners encouraged and\u00a0 gave us the hope to go ahead to host them. I\u2019m confident about leaving a remarkable experience as we firmly believe in \u201cAtithi Devo Bhava\u201d which means \u201cThe guest is equivalent to God\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Praveenkumar and my wife name is Veena and we are blessed with a cute and well behaved son name Om, who is 5 years old studying in upper kindergarten.\u00a0I work as a manager at Water Literacy Foundation, Bangalore. We are into water conservation and offer services across rural, urban and industrial India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"Closed","ping_status":"Closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fslnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9373","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=9373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fsl-india.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}