“We have made it!!!” The students from a Middle School in a rural town close to Coimbatore, South India, are happy when the game ends. They are happy because it’s just two days till the holidays at school will start. And: they are happy because in the hygiene action game against ten managers from all…
Category: leadership
Managers experience how to provide good food when they can spend 50 rupees per day only…
After the visit of our MMH kindergarten in Rural South India today our managers got the task to buy nutrious food for a very small amount of money (50 INR – that is what most of the families living close to the poverty line can spend per day per food). This experience gave them an…
A goat training in a tribal village – when Animal Health managers create a win win for all
Let’s assume you are a high level manager. Can you imagine to run – in a rather spontaneous and very pragmatic way- a goat training in a tribal village? To get in very close contact with women who conduct a completely different life and where the daily family income is around 200 rupees ( ca…
Understanding basics about small farm holders’ life in South India
After the successful implementation of the Making More Health Insights week in India – more than 100 managers from Boehringer Ingelheim participated in the last 2,5 years – this time a new pilot week “MMH in action” has been launched. MMH in Action aims to focus on specific target groups in our focus area…
More social entrepreneurial activities in rural South India – where health meets wealth!
A lot of programs have been launched under the umbrella of Boehringer Ingelheim’s Making More Health initiative in India in the past three years and are ongoing, such as our health awareness program driven by the company’s managers and experts that helps selfhelp group members of rural South India to get more knowledge in mental…
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…
