German people are strict, Indian people are chaotic, some are rich, others poor, these people need this and others that …. Do you know these stereotypes? When these stereotypes are linked to emotions and become prejudices, when the media starts to highlight again and again the same negative or positive aspects, when thoughts how entire…
Category: Education
When poor girls learn about graphic design
It’s a small project, but one of those projects which makes a difference in the lives of young adults. Directly, without too much theoretical thinking how to do it, but just by starting and making a difference – step by step. The idea is simple, but effective . The location? An orphanage in Mangalore, India….
“We want to know what others know about us and our country” -An amazing project with women selfhelp groups in India
A few weeks ago I visited the women selfhelp groups in Karamadai in Tamil Nadu, India and asked them whether they would be interested in tailoring a game. A local NGO helped to organize and ca 30 women from poor urban background joined the meeting. They all were very keen to know more details about…
Show leaders the need for change. Disruptive Leadership Training in rural India
Have you ever thought about a disruptive, out-of-the-comfort zone leadership training for business managers that besides challenging your managers could also being the starting point to connect social and future business activities? I have experienced many leadership trainings in the last years. On different topics and with teachers who tried their best. I have seen…
Using a game: income generation and more for selfhelp group women
“It was in 1977 that we have started to put a lot of energy into social work and to set up Self help groups and skill trainings for poor women from urban, rural and tribal areas around Karamadai,” Rev. sister Anila from the Good Shephard convent in Karamadai, Tamil Nadu tells me. She is really…
What the lack of Internet means to rural Indian Kindergarten Teachers
At 10.30 am the Workshop should start. When I enter the meeting room at 10 am most of the 15 kindergarten teachers are already sitting in the room and waiting. Whoever says that all Indian meetings starts much later than fixed is wrong. We will work together on a health game and discuss the…
If you want to know India, take a Train
It’s a real hot morning in April. At the train station in Cochin it’s crowdy. When a train arrives there is a lot of movement: people jump out of the trains, often run across the iron rails, clack, clack, clack out of the train windows a lot of empty and half-full water bottles are…
Where street kids & elderly people can feel at home – until the night comes
At 7 am some children already wait in front of the door of this drop-in center. Some of the children look very tired and want to sleep, others look forward to staying and playing together in the upcoming hours; a few of them are still under drugs. But they all have one common aim: washing,…
The Sugarcane children of Negros
When we enter the classroom they are already waiting. It’s Monday, a special and additional school day for the students who normally just come to school on Saturday. They are between 10 and 24 years old. They sit together, in one room. Some of them try to get the elementary school certificate, others are keen…
Are you a storyteller? Support kindergarten project
I am looking at the moment for some short “mirror” stories for Indian kindergarten children in rural and tribal areas as I want to publish a book on mirror stories for these children. Not for profit. I’m looking for stories which we could use and share with the kindergarten centers, where the children can directly…
Go India, go future! 