In India, the healthcare infrastructure can’t keep up with the skyrocketing demand for health services. In order to meet current demand, India needs 500,000 more doctors, and twice as many nurses. Meanwhile, patients are often discharged into environments without adequate sanitation, knowledge, and tools to care for themselves safely. But Noora Health, an innovative organisation…
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Social business : a future model to combine social needs and business and my travels to India
Why I spent an hour with studying Indian job offers on a local newspaper
Reading newspapers abroad is always an interesting activity to get insights on how local people think and act. National and international events, news, comments should be presented in a similar way all over the world – as it happened and that’s it – , but by doing so it becomes a hundred thousand different realities….
Protection and safety- a huge market niche in India
Adults of all ages and school children en masse walk along the streets without any sidewalk area. On the national highway there are Rikshas, and overloaded tractors in the middle of the roads. Cows and goats cross. Gaps and bumpy parts – no problem for the cyclists. Guard rails? In the big cities you find…
India is a picture book for understanding life
More than 100 days of “experiencing India” have passed. But still – here in India there is so much to discover, every day, again and again. All over the country. Just as if it were the first time I get not tired to observe while travelling, simply watching: people and things that exist and…
A Christian NGO, caring sisters and brothers and a dinner with the bishop
In Kerala, in the South of India, there live most of Christian Indians. Ca. 20% of the population are Christians, which is very high in comparison with most of all other Indian regions. From there come most of the Christian Sisters and Brothers working all over India – as priests, fathers, social workers, sisters…
Indians, oxen and a deep trust in the world
B Indians can sleep everywhere and everytime. If you are on tour with a driver and you will just leave the car for ten minutes and come back, be sure that the driver will be there on the seat with closed eyes having a catnap. Sometimes they sleep on some racks and shelves in small…
Meeting the Children’s club at the end of the world
The children of Mokhmalla in the Gharwal live in one of the most isolated parts of the world. Due to bad roads, missing vehicles and money they live in the upper parts of a Himalayan mountain. They live at the end of a valley, there where the high Himalaya mountains start growing into heaven. It…
Life in the Himalaya: Dangerous roads, a disaster risk reduction plan and missing health facilities
From the official ‘road’ – it is a sandy small and unsafe way with danger of landslides, rockfalls and some cars that finished thirdy, fourty meters below in the abyss – we take a secondary ‘road’, a small path that leads into a small valley. No site tails, huge stones on the road, missing…
Sisters, social work and floods in the Gharwal
The way is long and exhausting, it takes more than 10 hours by car: small, broken roads, often deep abysses , endless bends, warning of landslides and rockfall. We, that’s a Priest and myself, are on the way to an isolated village in the Gharwal region. We will visit a social project with disabled children…
Visiting Sanyasi – Religion but also Social work
According to Hindu Mythology in everyone’s life there should be four parts of life, called also the four Ashrams: Vidyarthi, Grihastha, Vanprastha, and Sanyasa. Vidyarthi ashram, the first comprises the first 25 years. From 25 to the age of 50 people should get married and have a family. At 50 then the renunciation phase starts…
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