Health means also to have access to high quality of drinking water. The number of diseases caused by infected water for human beings and animals is still very high. Much too high – also in our Making More Health project area in rural South India. That’s why in our MMH areas close to Coimbatore, in…
Category: animal health
How to make your cow happy – and managers, too!
After a week of field experiences, including discussions with veterinarians and farmers, after visiting Milk chilling plants and the agricultural university and after some exciting hours of preparation… it’s time to give back: our managers, most of them veterinarians and/or a background in Animal Health are asked to develop and to run a training for…
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…
A joyful day for managers, NGO colleagues, tribal people & goats
It has been a very special day today. A day when many managers, tribal people from the Anaikatti area (close to Coimbatore, South India) and last, but not least also 28 goats have been waiting for. Under the umbrella of our Making More Health initiative last November we had invited managers from our Animal health…
If human are healthy then animals are healthy and vice versa
For two days tribal and urban Selfhelp group members have been trained in Animal Health, 50 participants in total under the umbrella of our Making More Health initiative. The programme was resourced by a local doctor in close collaboration with a Veterinarian of our company and the support of a local NGO. The focus lied…
A goat training in a tribal village – when Animal Health managers create a win win for all
Let’s assume you are a high level manager. Can you imagine to run – in a rather spontaneous and very pragmatic way- a goat training in a tribal village? To get in very close contact with women who conduct a completely different life and where the daily family income is around 200 rupees ( ca…
Go India, go future! 