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…
Category: change
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…
A next trip to India – and happy to make the next steps happen
A two week trip back to our projects is in front of me. Just sitting in the plane and waiting for departure I review the agenda. Some busy days will come. First in Mumbai discussing with my colleagues and a few local NGOs on how we can start more social activities in Mumbai itself. The…
About searchers and planners or in other words: Harry Potter solutions unfortunately are not real
In 2005, the British and Americans delivered 9 millions copies of the sixth volume of Harry Potter in a single day. At the same time around 2.3trillion dollar had been spent on foreign aid to help the poor. The books succeeded to entertain rich adults and children , the poor and their issues – eg…
Are you a change agent? Apply for the kanthari leadership training in South India!
Paul and Sabriye are running one of the most exciting, change making leadership trainings I have ever seen – for many years now. Many participants have set up their own social enterprises in a very successful way after running through this curriculum, all over the world. That’s why this call for application is an opportunity…
More health? Then empower people through digital knowledge to take care
… because health means to empower people to care about themselves! Besides the access to Internet (which is available in many rural parts of the world) it is important to teach basic digital knowledge to those who are living in poor surroundings: about how to handle devices, how to use the Internet and writing emails….
When children and parents start to smile – Inaugurating a Center for visually and multiple disabled children in Mumbai
Today, we have inaugurated a center for visually and multiple disabled children at the Bai Jerbai Wadia hospital for children in Mumbai. Have a look: In front of the Wadia hospital, Mumbai The Wadia hospital is one of the best pediatric hospitals in Asia where also people with less income are treated at very high…
Incredible things happen when managers engage on a long term level
We startet activities with schools 2 years back in collaboration with our local NGO partner KKID and one of our MMH ( Making More Health initiative) fellow as well as the German government. Everyone took care of a different thing, but always with the aim of completing hygiene awareness and practice. That approach is definitely…
The big enigma of becoming future micro entrepreneurs
We, my colleague from Greece and myself, have arrived today in the rural areas close to Coimbatore, here where we have also launched many other trainings on health and digital, build kindergarten and toilets. But it’s time to enable people to launch small businesses on their own. There is no health without wealth. We do…
Where visionaries become leaders – learn more about kanthari/ South India
Today, I like to share with you some exciting news from my friends Paul and Sabriye who run a great organization in South India. Sabriye and Paul started kanthari, an institute for social change in 2009. In just 10 years, they have produced leaders who have impacted over 50,000 lives. With help of several hands-on…
Go India, go future! 