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Twoandahalfweeks in India – playing with children from ABHAYA home
Originally posted on Go India, go future!:
Visiting the Abhaya children home in Coimbatore Today we are going to visit a children home in the city of Coimbatore, South India. When we arrive, we are very surprised: We stop in front of a nicely painted entry and a lot of the children have prepared a warm welcome.…
Social entrepreneurship at the World Health Summit
It was the second time that we had the chance to run a workshop on social entrepreneurship at the World Health Summit in Berlin. A great opportunity. We, that were a group of people somehow connected to the Making More Health initiative, a cross functional and cross- organizational initiative around social entrepreneurs from all over…
A ten minutes walk in Paris – impressions
Paris is known as the city of love, interesting monuments and a lot of arts. That’s one of many realities. I had a short walk through the city today and just took a few pictures that reflect other realities: Paris is a place – as many other West-European cities – of many contrasts. A place…
Moments with Social entrepreneurs in India – Edith Eliott teaching healthcare to caring relatives
In many cultures – not just in India – families of patients stay very close to them when they are in hospital: mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers spent entire day’s sitting close to the patient in the room and assist where possible. Often then many hours pass and they cannot do anything but being…
Moments with Social Entrepreneurs in India – Vandana Gopikumar
There are many social entrepreneurs in India, and probably many I do not know. However, I had the chance to meet a few of them and I just like to share with you some amazing moments . The first is Vandana Gopikumar. She runs The Banyan at the south of Chennai. When she was still…
Thinking Isn’t Doing
Lead Today Thinking is good, there is no doubt about that. Thinking too much however might not be so good. It?s amazing how often ?over-thinking? leads to ?under-doing.? We think so much about what we should do, or what we?re going to do, that we never actually get around to doing it. The most successful…
Are you a social entrepreneur? Co-creation competition launched
Do you have a good idea on how to make more health happen? Maybe you already have your own startup or you are starting to think about it. Covering a social need in the health area is in the focus on what you do? Just wanted shortly inform about a recently launched co-creation competition. Making…
We suffer from Pseudo solutions and money waste
Do you know this situation? There are teams sitting together and are looking for solutions. A lot of proposals are coming in and a lot of creativity is in the air. We listen to them, maybe still write them down, but somehow the last or first one or the one given by a specif person…
Kho Phi Phi – a paradise for realists
There is no paradise on earth. You should know. But an idea on how it could look you can get when you visit Kho Phi Phi in the low season and you don’t stop at the ferry pier where the day tourists come and – of course – Kho Phi Phi’ habitants have discovered well…
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