First Harvest! Zero Dumping Waste Management in Action from Food and Vegetable Waste After just 50 days of hands-on learning and community dedication, something remarkable has taken root — not just in the soil, but in the mindset of three unique locations in Southern India. We’re proud to celebrate the first harvest from our Zero…
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Day 4 of our Making More Health Insights Week in India – Experiencing Sustainable Impact and Understanding Vulnerable Communities
Today we continued our journey to explore social impact, sustainability, and innovation in some of India’s most vulnerable communities. We had the incredible opportunity to visit the Todas tribe, an indigenous community with a rich cultural heritage and unique way of life. Learning about their traditions, challenges, and sustainable practices gave us a new perspective…
Bridging Corporate and work at the bottom line – Stepping Into Reality: A Transformative Field Visit from managers to an Anganwadi in India
Since 2015 we run now the 28th Insights Week with Corporate managers from different countries „on the ground“ in India, interacting with vulnerable communities living at the poverty line. Our first field visit in India has begun. For managers visiting from across the world, this is more than just a trip—it’s an immersion into real-world…
Caring for the Carers – Learning from the Field in Tamil Nadu, India
Have you ever thought about what it really means to be a long-term carer? The emotional, physical, and financial toll it takes? How it affects personal relationships, self-confidence, and mental health? Around the world, carers—those who dedicate their lives to supporting family members with disabilities, mental health conditions, or chronic illnesses—often go unnoticed and unsupported….
Demystifying volunteering – our System changer network India partners and others revealing the true essence of volunteering and the profound impact it can create.
On 21. June 2024 a very interesting 2 days event took place where several international and national companies, NGOs and we as Making More Health participated. The topic: demystifying volunteering. The goal of the event: Understanding better employee volunteering as a huge opportunity for the non profit sector. In the past, there was mostly expected…
Practical insights while working with vulnerable communities
Why local women self help groups play an important role when farmers bring huge arid areas back to life Vibha Varghees, CEO from the organization Vikasana, is one of our nine core NGO partners in the System Changer Network India. Vikasana is located in Karnataka, South India – a 6 hours drive away from Bangalore….
When sustainability investments have some bad site effects…
When sustainability investments have some bad site effects… Sustainable is good. Thinking sustainably, acting sustainably. Investing sustainably and, above all, in an impactful and socially entrepreneurial manner is a big trend. But what if there are unwanted side effects? Yesterday, I was in a children’s home in Tarikere, India. 25 girls between 11 and 17…
System Changer Network India – here we are!
There are many networks in the world, mostly topic- or people related, formal or informal, aiming to share or to put efforts together. There are also many networks in the NGO world, on national and international level. So, why another one? The System Changer Network India aims to build system solutions, following system of systems…
Understanding the impact of our hygiene program at primary schools
During the Making More Health Insights week, a very disruptive and experience based global leadership program, our colleagues visit also school projects that we run under the Making More Health Initiative. The hygiene awareness program has several components, from toilet and wash basin installations to a very powerful set of hygiene games developed under MMH…
Social workers need digital access and skills to optimize impact
In the last years, one of our activities and programs in South India also supported the digital access for our local kindergarten teachers ( who work as informal health care workers in the tribal villages, too) and for our local NGO partners. Often it is difficult – especially for smaller NGOs – to finance their…
Go India, go future! 