When we enter the classroom they are already waiting. It’s Monday, a special and additional school day for the students who normally just come to school on Saturday. They are between 10 and 24 years old. They sit together, in one room. Some of them try to get the elementary school certificate, others are keen…
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Social business : a future model to combine social needs and business and my travels to India
Good News from our past Manager trip in India
In November 2015, some international Corporate managers have run a leadership session in the tribal areas of Coimbatore staying and collaborating with a NGO, the Karl Kübel Institute for Development Education. Based on the Makingmorehealth program (www.makingmorehealth.com) they learned a lot about the local health challenges and discussed topics on social entrepreneurship. It was a…
The Coca-Cola mystery
“In the past people have always avoided this part of the island road. It’s a location with only a few houses. People say that something is magical here. When you pass along strange lights are visible here and there and no one knows what it is,” tells me one of the inhabitants of Bantayan,…
Philippines – Life and princesses at the dumpsite
I’m in Cebu, in the Philippines, for ten days on a round trip. Usually, tourists enjoy the weather, the beach, snorkeling or do some island hopping. But this travel has a different scope. It’s about learning and understanding how people live here. People who are living below or close to the poverty line. Life at…
Traveling to the Philippines and India
It’s time to travel again. There might be many reasons: People and friendships. Ongoing projects in collaboration with NGOs. Pleasure, destiny, attraction. Maybe even a kind of obsession to travel and to understand a little bit more of this world. What’s on the agenda? It will be a social and business travel again. A combination…
Modern tech, trends and dreams of a healthier world – the pit of ignorance or the land of knowledge?
The need for a better world, for healthier people and happier people all over the world is still as big as many years ago. Even bigger. Maybe even more pressing. Promising solutions and trends are present everywhere: conferences, books, in the media – we are advanced, we have created high tech, the dream that…
Are you a storyteller? Support kindergarten project
I am looking at the moment for some short “mirror” stories for Indian kindergarten children in rural and tribal areas as I want to publish a book on mirror stories for these children. Not for profit. I’m looking for stories which we could use and share with the kindergarten centers, where the children can directly…
I have a brother, qualifications and degrees, a flat and … cancer – how digital & patient understanding in the pharma industry changes
Observing pharma conferences I gave my last keynote speech on 2012 on digital topics. At one of the big pharma conferences. Then I changed my job and I got deeper into social business and learned about social entrepreneurs, NGOs, alternative ways of thinking… I wanted to find out more on what really makes changes happen…
Talking about Social enterpreneurship @German-African Economics Forum – it’s not all about Millennials
It’s time to share social entrepreneurial examples and initiatives on where traditional business partners meet and new business connections are done. Yesterday I met business people, investors, people who want to invest and mostly are already several years very successful in what they do at the German-African Economics Forum in Dortmund, Germany. There is…
Where humans need more than medicine – A tribal hospital with empathy and a leadership lesson
We all know that staying in a hospital is not really fun. Staying in a poor hospital in the very rural areas in South India is even worse. There are many challenges to overcome and it is too easy to criticize what is missing and what should be done. But not everything depends on money…
Go India, go future! 