I’ve come to Delhi for a business meeting. While walking from the hotel in Oklah, an industrial zone in Delhi, to the company I’m meeting with, I see a lot of people living in very small houses. Houses? A kind of building, houses is exaggerated… Obviously, the people staying here have a very low income….
Category: India
Digital knowledge for kindergarten teachers in rural India
It was an amazing 2 days learning experience to all of us when the kindergarten teachers from the rural area in Kerala and Tamil Nadu (South India/ATTAPPADI) started the devices, learned how to handle it, how to write emails and got access to Internet for the first time in their life. Probably one of those…
Make it simply happen – Blood pressure testing in a tribal village
It was an amazing experience and an unexpected one – yesterday we could not run a health awareness program as planned, because the chief minister of Tamil Nadu had passed away the day before and it was not possible for the participants to travel to our learning center. That’s why – two friends (one of…
Leprosy in India is still a big issue, but a smile does not cost anything
Just a day back… They are sitting and having dinner. In the dining hall – many people. This is nothing special, I know. But this time it is different. I see it when I watch the people and it will keep it in my mind for a long time. But let me explain first: I’m…
Dreams in life – talking to a shop assistant in Mangalore, #India
Early in the morning, a few days back in Mangalore/India I passed at a shoe shop. One of those branded shoe shops that you can find in every and each big mall in the cities. Inside five, six shoe assistants were preparing for the day. Unpacking new shoe arrivals, cleaning, starting the work. Very smart,…
Dreams in life – talking to a student in Mangalore, #India
Dreams in life -talking to a student in Mangalore, #India Watch the video (1:24 min) She is so nice and open- minded and just started to talk to me when I walked in a mall in the city. She made my day.
So happy to meet my graphic designer girls from Mangalore
Just a year ago I met them for the first time. The girls come from a difficult family background, partly they have grown up in the orphanage in Mangalore. Every morning they come and take graphic design classes, offered by a few volunteers under the guidance of Gita. They are 16, 17 years old –…
When you have left the monkeys behind, the arrival in time is just a question of driver capability
It costs just 185 Indian rupees – ca. 2.50 EUR – but it includes at least six hours full of adventure. Where do you get this offer? Very simple. Just take a bus from Tarikere or Shimogga (a town in the state of Karnataka of India) to Mangalore. Ca. 200 km. Ok, the bus is…
Understanding realities – bringing business and social world together
I lead a disruptive leadership experience for international Corporate business managers in rural India this week. That’s what they say: Today, we visited two tribal hospitals (1 primary care and 1 specialty care). Amazing how agile they are to treat so many patients always with the same kindness. One of the major remaining problem for…
Just a few impressions from a visit at an Ayurvedic factory and a wise man’s speech
Today, with business managers I visited an ayurvedic factory and listened to the speech of a wise man who has studied more than 70 years about plants and healthcare and a very particular but meaningful view on the world. He underlined the close connection between human beings and the nature, the destruction of areas where…
Go India, go future! 