Prisoners who kill their spouse in domestic disputes leave behind children who are orphaned. In many cases, when a father kills a mother, their child becomes an orphan and these children are even stigmatized. What will happen to them? A career that leads to prison, too? Or is there a chance and also the good…
Category: Education
A grid for students – because health starts with prevention
In one of the schools in South India we run together with our local NGO partner (Karl Kübel institute for development education) and a social entrepreneur from our network a large hygiene program. During one of the last visits we had a conversation about various topics, among them a very simple to solve but risky…
A change that the world needs – that’s why experiencing through leadership weeks counts
The 9th “MMH Insight leadership week” in India. Together with our Animal Health and Innovation weeks more than 200 managers from all the world have now participated in this learning experience and many of them have started their own social entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial (from within) projects – in their home countries or in our Indian…
Making More Health – Soap Competition launched for self-help groups
After two days of paper making and raw soap experiments the next step to share more skills and knowledge with women is done. Empower women to make more health happen. But more health means also that people can finance it and have income. That’s why health and wealth belong together. With these trainings we empower…
Autism and early childhood – an Indian trust that cares
“There is still a huge lack of awareness when it comes to autism and children,” Dr. Prathibha Karanth explains. She is a very engaged and warm-hearted person and known for her lifetime engagement for children with autism all over India. “Often parents do not recognize it at an early stage, they don’t want to see…
Paintings that encourage better health habits
Our MMH painting works at a primary school in Varapalayam, Southern India are finished. The paintings are just an element of a whole bundle of activities we run together and which we create together with the students, teachers and our local Indian NGO partner, Karl Kübel Institute for development education. At this school a hygiene…
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…
Letter from a Self-help group participant in our digital training in rural India
In the last two days two colleagues supporting our Making More Health initiative have been in India. Together with our local NGO partner they have run digital training on how to use a tablet and learned about email usage. Also Cyber security was a topic. The training aims to enable people from the ground to…
Health awareness is key – inauguration of a MMH awareness center
On 21 February 2019 we have inaugurated our Making More Health (MMH) Awareness center at the tribal hospital in Kottathara, South India – in close collaboration with our local partner NGO Karl Kübel institute for development education. The idea was born two years ago when we heard from the director of the hospital that the…
A learning center for patients and relatives in a tribal hospital is under way
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…
Go India, go future! 