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: empathy
Poor people as change drivers: What if we became partners instead of empowering dependencies
Have you ever thought if poor people can have innovative ideas for your business or become a real partner for development not in their poor villages, but in large and wealthy industries? It is true: many poor people often have no opportunity to get a good school or professional education. Many of them can not…
7weeks in India – What’s your good name, M’am?
Wherever I have been in India during the last weeks – in huge cities, smaller towns or tribal areas – I found them everywhere: Curiosity and the Indian way of fun. “What’s your good name, Mam?” – A short smile, a kind eye-contact … and you can be sure that you are asked several times…
Maringa tree – How to help poor people who suffer from malnutrition
Did you know that the tiny leaves of maringa tree (moringa) could save so many lives? That it grows mostly all over Africa, South America, India and other South East Asian countries? That it has 7 times the vitamin C of an orange? 4 times the vitamin A of carrots? 4 times the calcium of…
Go India, go future! 