Bangkok has a lot to offer. It has amazing temples, monuments, skyscrapers, a colorful life, the tourist roads, vivid markets and the refreshing express boat rides on the Chao Phraya. No doubt, for tourists a great city. What about the normal life? What I like a lot is that the basics for a living are…
Category: health
A visit to the gypsy village
Probably, in the main season a considerable number of tourists come here. It’s just a little bit out of Phuket town and maximum 30 km, but a “world”, away from one of the most visited beaches in Thailand and the modern hotels. But today we are alone, the only European people, farangs, in the sea…
The ‘street dentist’ – injustice that hurts
Healthcare is one of the most discussed topics. Because it concerns all of us. Because it is important. And because there is injustice in terms of treatment and access to qualified healthcare. No doubt, having money means having better access to care. Everywhere. More money, better healthcare. For poor people there remains just the basic…
An accident, money lenders, misery. Poverty has many faces.
Sanyo is 29 years old. He lives in a small rural village close to Karamadai, a village with a very poor infrastructure. Drinking water is delivered every second week only via a pipeline system. Recently, a housing project has helped to give a better home to families – without leaking roofs and with…
Talking to Tea Field Workers about health in Valparai, India
Staying in the South Indian plains of Tamil Nadu you cannot imagine what’s up there in the hills at a height of ca. 1500 feet. For reaching the most known places such as Ooty, Munnar or Valparai you have to climb up a huge number of hair pin bends. And then, at a certain point…
Maternal and infantile health in India
Did you know that 60 to 80% of pregnant women and 50% of children in India are anaemic? This is mostly caused by malnutrition and/or under nutrition and it has wide spread effects on the body. You will see many people suffering from dizziness and fatigue, stunted children and adults. A woman dies in…
India: Integrating marginalized families in hospitals – an innovative idea, more health for all
In India, the healthcare infrastructure can’t keep up with the skyrocketing demand for health services. In order to meet current demand, India needs 500,000 more doctors, and twice as many nurses. Meanwhile, patients are often discharged into environments without adequate sanitation, knowledge, and tools to care for themselves safely. But Noora Health, an innovative organisation…
Life in the Himalaya: Dangerous roads, a disaster risk reduction plan and missing health facilities
From the official ‘road’ – it is a sandy small and unsafe way with danger of landslides, rockfalls and some cars that finished thirdy, fourty meters below in the abyss – we take a secondary ‘road’, a small path that leads into a small valley. No site tails, huge stones on the road, missing…
An “open air” Fitness workout Center in Varanasi
On the way back from Bihar I stop at Varanasi, one of the oldest cities of the world and additionally one of the very holy places in India. There is a lot to see and do there, ca. 3500 temples, ashrams, a huge university – and of course all the ghats and ceremonies. It is…
Go Future: Health awareness, education, violance – a personal report by a woman living in rural areas
They have electricity just for two hours a day. A mother, her two children, her mother and father-in-law and her husband. Her husband suffers from mental illness. They live in Bihar in very rural areas in a small house. A smokeless chullar with a van that does not work, a solar collector that gives light…
Go India, go future! 