The knitting experience I wanted to find out how the intercultural collaboration and interaction “across the borders” works and feels: being in middle of tribal women, who are organized in some selfhelp groups, live in very limited infrastructural surroundings and who are busy with caring goats and providing the basics for their families. How…
Category: Education
The light bag – simple idea, huge impact
Light is essential. And has a huge impact also on education and how poor children can study. The light backpack offers the opportunity to study when the daylight has gone. But just have a look: Video: If you can’t get access, please click here: https://vimeo.com/118578556 Related material Backpack Doubles As Reading Light So Children In…
India: Healthcare in rural areas is expensive, but this could change
The long walk, the cost of loss of earnings of the day, the price of staying in the city when treatment is needed, and the cost of a relative coming with the patient to support any treatment needed – these all are factors that makes the access to healthcare in rural areas in India much…
Lourdes of the East, 10 years after the tsunami
We stay in Vailankanni, Nagapattinam destrict, a pilgrim town at the east coast in Tamil Nadu. It lies on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal, 350 km south of Chennai. Vailankatti is a very known pilgrim place that can be traced back to the 16th century and its founding is attributed to three…
7weeks in India – A travel to the past, a life without mobility
The importance of mobility: For us in the developped world reaching from A to B is always possible, sometimes it might take some more time, but every village, every place is connected. If some trains or busses are on strike we get crazy, but ….can you imagine a life without any mobility? A life where…
7weeks in India – From woman to woman, part 1
When I decided to go to the rural and tribal parts of India there was a special thing I wanted to find out: Who are these women living there? What is in their mind? How does life look, what do they think and feel, what are their thoughts? What do they perceive and think when…
Video of the month: Building a culture of health
A culture of health: The world is complex and making health, as well. Building a culture of health means more than just giving a medicine, a doctor’s visit or building hospitals: it is also about finding and implementing solutions to fight against poverty, to create jobs and to deliver education. At all stages of life….
The world is big. Why just becoming a chicken farmer?
The world is asking for more education. Wherever you go, the call for more, for a better education is obvious. Be it in the developed or in the developing world. But what often is underestimated is that we do not need just education, but diversity of education for ensuring economic growth and change making people….
Diverse education, impact journalism and courage – outcomes from the Zermatt summit
Good two days in Zermatt. Interesting ones. On my way back from the Zermatt Summit some phrases, some discussions still stay and seem to become even more powerful. Rethinking Business values and Positive Economy is a must: have you asked why we do business? For gaining money? Why? One interesting point was that we have…
Change the world – on the streets working with kids
During the Ashoka changemaker week in Paris last week there was one particular social entrepreneur that still remains in my mind. He gave a short intro during one speaker session. His name is Arnoud Raskin, Founder of Mobile Schools and Streetwize. Mobile Schools develops innovative education programs that enhance the qualities of resourcefulness that underprivileged…
Go India, go future! 