Just imagine you have grown up in poor surroundings, maybe a slum area or maybe a remote village. Some years of schools – maybe. Your life has been mostly about finding ways to survive. Getting fresh water, enough food. Sometimes your family had a little income. Daily wages. But also many days without. Many critical…
System Changer Network India – here we are!
There are many networks in the world, mostly topic- or people related, formal or informal, aiming to share or to put efforts together. There are also many networks in the NGO world, on national and international level. So, why another one? The System Changer Network India aims to build system solutions, following system of systems…
Strawberries and more from Nandurbar
During a two day visit at Nandurbar, Maharashtra we visited several tribal villages in the mountains of Satpuda Range, one of the mountain chains that separates North from South India. The people live up in the mountains, their houses are distant from each other. The roads are small and people move mainly with bikes or…
Learnings from a training with women living at the poverty line, India
During the Making More Health (MMH) Insights week 12 managers from around the world have participated in a very disruptive leadership program while interacting with vulnerable communities, getting insights from local NGOs and other local stakeholders and visiting several MMH projects. However – for getting a real experience – theory needs to meet practice… One…
Understanding the impact of our hygiene program at primary schools
During the Making More Health Insights week, a very disruptive and experience based global leadership program, our colleagues visit also school projects that we run under the Making More Health Initiative. The hygiene awareness program has several components, from toilet and wash basin installations to a very powerful set of hygiene games developed under MMH…
Some impressions from our MMH insights week in India
It‘s the 14th MMH insights week in India where employees from different backgrounds and countries are joining together at our local partner location (KKID) to get deeper insights into Making More Health (MMH) projects and activities, they learn about other values and other ways of life, but also about themselves, interact directly with vulnerable communities,…
Get out of your bubble, experience realities and how to make a difference
When you look at things with a different light, things start to change. You discover new formats, ask different questions and find different answers. Just imagine you are a manager from an international company. You do business trips, maybe across all important markets, you sit in meetings, you manage high level projects. Suddenly, you are…
Social workers need digital access and skills to optimize impact
In the last years, one of our activities and programs in South India also supported the digital access for our local kindergarten teachers ( who work as informal health care workers in the tribal villages, too) and for our local NGO partners. Often it is difficult – especially for smaller NGOs – to finance their…
…because the future starts with our children
A few days back, Eszter Harsyani, a social entrepreneur from Hungary, running the organization Nestingplay, and our local partner NGO in India, the Karl Kubel institute for development education, have run together a session with kindergarten teachers, teachers and parents on early childhood development. As one participant said:“I liked the teaching methods. They are easy…
Making More Health in India: what’s going on?
Also in India a lot of Making More Health (MMH) activities are happening. Just to name a few: besides two new MMH kindergarten/ Anganwadi buildings, a Making More Health leadership week in July, preparations for the launch of a system changer network India and the final preparations of an apprentice exchange program between Boehringer Ingelheim…
Go India, go future! 