Five months have passed since I have been visiting the tribal village where months ago we had a very good time together with knitting lessons, cooking and more. I’m traveling with a group of my company this week and today we have come here for a short village visit because I want to show them…
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Social business : a future model to combine social needs and business and my travels to India
Indian friendships and a next exposure trip with managers
I’m happy to be back to Tamil Nadu, back to the tribal women and villages and to a different part of the world where some things just are seen and done differently. It’s somehow about coming back to the roots, to be closer to earth – a good experience after four months in the “modern”…
Car market pictures, comb stories and a challenging walk in Bangalore
Today I have been to Bharati Nagar (BN), a part of Bangalore which – for sure- is not the famous part of a modern Indian city and rarely part of an offered sightseeing tour. It takes you to the heart of poverty and back to past centuries. It’s raining today and very muddy – ,…
Going back to India and challenging myself
It might be true: people who come the first time will hate it or love it. You come never back again or you can’t resist to come back again and again. For me India is the country of contrasts, the one where you can find everything and often you are confronted with extremes. Probably, that’s…
Encourage courage!
Today I participated in a workshop in Berlin where stakeholders from different sectors discussed on “social Intrapreneurship – added value for companies and society”. There are a lot of discussions ongoing – across all sectors. That’s interesting. What it is, what it is not, how to measure, if to measure, is it measurable at all…
Refugees and Social intrapreneurship: think beyond donations
There are more than 20 million people in the world who leave their countries looking for a better life. All over the world. Every day arrive thousands of people in Western countries and discussion on the refugee issues dominate the media andsocial channels. There are many needs to fulfill for the arriving refugees. Not everyone…
Social enterpreneurship for everyone. A trend you should know.
Social entrepreneurial thinking has reached politics, universities, companies. In mostly all countries of the world. Where some years ago the terminology was still unknown or just a few social and economic influencers knew about it, today the number of conferences, articles published and call for competitions have grown enormously. Expert books, but also books for…
Three basic hints for startups and social entrepreneurs
Often people ask how to start an own social business. You want to make sure that you are well prepared? Download this question-based guiding brochure “the budding social entrepreneur”. It helps to get an overview on what you should take into consideration before you launch your own business. It’s free. You need to “sell” your business…
Twoandahalfweeks in India – playing with children from ABHAYA home
Originally posted on Go India, go future!:
Visiting the Abhaya children home in Coimbatore Today we are going to visit a children home in the city of Coimbatore, South India. When we arrive, we are very surprised: We stop in front of a nicely painted entry and a lot of the children have prepared a warm welcome.…
Social entrepreneurship at the World Health Summit
It was the second time that we had the chance to run a workshop on social entrepreneurship at the World Health Summit in Berlin. A great opportunity. We, that were a group of people somehow connected to the Making More Health initiative, a cross functional and cross- organizational initiative around social entrepreneurs from all over…
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