Many companies run huge Corporate responsibility and citizenship initiatives or engage somehow in social areas. Of course, they do it and they talk about it and use it also to position their own organisation as a social player – which is quite fair. What, if we do these huge campaigns and marketing activities in a…
Category: India
Winning the 2017 Asia Best Practices Award – our learnings
With the bundle of projects and activities which are also described in this blog ( health awareness trainings, work with kindergarten, digital trainings …) we were honored in August with the 2017 Asia Best Practices Award for our successful work in South India. It is the highest award for international companies and their socially responsible…
2nd Mental health training for women in Rural India
Mental health is often not the focus of educational or health programs when it comes to developmental activities run by NGOs or big companies. But what if missing self-confidence, uncertainty, stress, relationships and alcohol make it very difficult to change or develop anything? That’s why we started mental health trainings for the tribal women in…
More Mental Health for selfhelp groups and their communities in India
In the past two days we have run our second Health community Worker training for self-help group (SHG) leaders in the rural and urban area around Coimbatore. This training is part of 12 different health related training modules under the umbrella of the Making More Health initiative. The training topics have been selected and discussed with…
Indians who drive economy in Kenya
An Indian Food container in the National Museum of Kenya A trip to Kenya – with “Indian surprises” Nairobi is called Africa’s Sillicon valley and besides digital omnipresence also social entrepreneurship plays an important role. An ideal destination to discover more … and finding out that there is a huge influence of India: After an…
Teaching health – learning from a doctor in a tribal area in India
Visualsized health information is very common in many countries and cultures. However, often these visuals focus on a specific health issue without connecting it to real life situations of people. They are rather topic- than people-oriented. Smoking harms ads in many variations, breast feeding benefits, posters show good and “bad” food… But even if the…
A place for children & more health: Inauguration of our 3rd MMH kindergarten in rural India
23 May, 2017 – Bhoothivazhi, SouthIndia More than hundred people have celebrated the inauguration of our third Making More Health kindergarten (anganwadi) in the rural village of Bhoothivazhi in Kerala. Bhoothivazhi is a location where more than 1200 tribal and rural people live together; 34 of them are children at the age between 3 and…
Plants for our 3rd kindergarten inauguration and a lot of positive energy
Tomorrow is the inauguration of our anganwadi (rural kindergarten) in Kerala, not to fat away from Agali. Finally. We really look forward to it. A 100 people will join, the kindergarten teacher, local government representatives, village people and we, the project team from the Making more Health initiative and The Karl Kübel institute for development…
Visit at kanthari, a training center for changemakers
Trivandrum, South India – that’s where kanthari is located. A real beautiful place, a place full of intense life and people who have one thing in common: being “kantharis”, changemakers in the world. kanthari is an accredited international institute that recognizes leadership in those individuals who come from and/or are positioned at the margins of…
Good social responsibility requires our personal engagement – because it helps to grow people differently
The first game tailoring training started one year ago. The women were keen to learn but they were a little scared whether they could make it or not. Hand embroidery, working on a more complex design, knowing that they were expected to deliver good quality products … it was not that easy at the beginning…
Go India, go future! 