As many of you may know I work together with local NGO partners in India and Kenya to better the life of vulnerable communities. One essential part of this work is not just to invest in various projects and activities, but we invest also a lot in network building among our partners, even across the…
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When cultural exchange makes a difference
I have worked now for several years with vulnerable communities in India and Kenya. Several activities and projects have taken place to make the life of the people a better one: training sessions on health and hygiene, income generating activities, water projects, digital training sessions, set up of infrastructure, mental health training sessions, and last,…
What stays? We asked some participants of the Making More Health Leadership week
In short interviews we asked some of our participants about their learning and the general takeaways from the week in India. They tell us also about impressions from field visits and a training they had prepared for young students in a technical institute:
Takeaways from our Making More Health Insights week – coming in as strangers, leaving as friends
The Making More Health Insights week in India has come to an end. A Leadership and insights week for 15 international managers full of “experiences on the ground” in tribal villages, suburban set ups, visits to NGOs, discussions and interactions with communities living at the poverty line in our project areas in South India. This…
Do we really know the needs? Our priorities might not be theirs
Does this sounds familiar to you? You see a need, you develop a solution while going for Target group analysis, user centric models, persona concepts, field surveys…. To understand the needs a lot of models have been applied, discussed and evaluated, including consultants from extern and intern. But how often have you really interacted with…
Our leaders and colleagues having a nice lunch prepared by a woman micro entrepreneur from our communities in India
As part of our Making More Health Leadership week in July 2022 we explored also how the collaboration with two of our partners has developed over the past years – we learned from our NGO partner NMCT in Coimbatore which impact our support had locally during Covid times (especially in terms of home schooling, and…
Go India, go future! 