In the last two days two colleagues supporting our Making More Health initiative have been in India. Together with our local NGO partner they have run digital training on how to use a tablet and learned about email usage. Also Cyber security was a topic. The training aims to enable people from the ground to…
Month: February 2019
Health awareness is key – inauguration of a MMH awareness center
On 21 February 2019 we have inaugurated our Making More Health (MMH) Awareness center at the tribal hospital in Kottathara, South India – in close collaboration with our local partner NGO Karl Kübel institute for development education. The idea was born two years ago when we heard from the director of the hospital that the…
When Business links to Social – Anil Patil taking care on carers
During our Making More Health exposure week with 20 business people at KKID (our partner NGO close to Coimbatore , South India) we had some very interesting insights and discussion also with Anil Patil. Anil is a social entrepreneur and Ashoka/Making More Health Fellow in our network. His big vision is to set up a…
A goat health book for village people in rural India is under way – it’s time to involve local stakeholders
In the last months a group of some Animal Health managers – who had participated in an exposure week in South India in 2017 -have started to develop a goat health book to support animals and income generation for poor village and tribal people. Yesterday, two of our managers came back to our project area….
There is one health only – for animals and human beings
A few photos from our Animal Health exposure week in our tribal project area in India. In the last three years more than 10 exposure weeks have taken place here, in the rural surroundings of Coimbatore in close partnership with KKID, a NGO. More than 200 people participated. And a lot of social and social…
How Carole has met her goat and became ”grandma” in a tribal village in rural India
Someone might think business is business and social is social. But at the end we have just one world and if we start to think like that then things we do start to change… In one of our Making More Health in action weeks ( a leadership program of our company) to rural India by…
Micro entrepreneurial activities- the Biriyani banana leaf makers
On my way to a shop I met a very interesting micro entrepreneurial family in one of the small secondary streets in the center of Coimbatore, South India. A lady sitting in front of a door is looking friendly at me when I pass by while cutting onions. I’m interested in finding out why she…
A learning center for patients and relatives in a tribal hospital is under way
Today, we have been to the tribal hospital in our project area in South India/ Anaikatti area, where we will open the MMH health awareness hall officially only next week. With the help of one of our employees and KKID we have worked on it in the last months. Making more health awareness for patients…
How health trainings create impact
Today we have run our last health community worker training (out of 12 training units in the last 18 months) with 30 people from Selfhelp groups – this time on respiratory issues. Two colleagues of mine were preparing and implementing it together with the local NGO and a local doctor and taught two days this…
From business to cow feeding – it’s just Indian lifestyle
After three meetings today with very interesting social organizations and some business discussions on scaling our social programs such as hygiene programs, active involvement of our Indian colleagues, a village project in the surroundings of Mumbai I’m staying with my Indian colleague and friend Neeti. We have stopped at a temple for taking care of…
Go India, go future! 