It is 4.20 hrs am when we leave our KKSD training center where we stayed the last days. A beautiful location, just half an hour away from Coimbatore. Our next destination is Cochin – by train. Whoever had been to India and seen trains passing by knows that this is an adventure – included into…
Category: Social business
Twoandahalfweeks in India – an old tribal ladies’ joke
During a visit of a tribal village close to the silent valley national park in Tamil Nadu we’re welcome in a very friendly and traditional way. Most of the village people are gathered in the Community room and expect us. When we arrive, the chairs are prepared for sitting together and tea is offered. We…
Twoandahalfweeks in India – pepper and tea production sites supported by PDS
During the stay in the Peermade Development Society we visit many projects, e.g also an organic pepper and a tea production site. From here in Peermade many of these products are delivered abroad, mostly to Germany and USA, but also Australia, Switzerland and Austria. At the pepper production site When entering the pepper production site…
Twoandahalfweeks in India – Peermade Development Society is a leader in organic farming
Since its inception in 1980, Peermade Development Society (PDS), has worked with the marginalized, the weak and the needy. The special programs of PDS – more than 50 (!) – aim to help the small and marginal farmers of the district by leading them to organic farming. The programs are supported partly by the German…
Twoandahalfweeks in India – on the way to rural villages
At 4 am I leave Mumbai and go with a small travel group, organized by a foundation that has more than 30 projects running in India, to Dharawadi, about 200 km from Mumbai. In Dharawadi there is a learning and a social center. Here we will stay some days and visit from there villages, farmers…
Twoandahalfweeks in India – Responsible tourism in Mumbai: Visiting Dharavi?
India is a world of contrasts, many colors, extreme richness, but also extreme poverty. That’s how books and TV programs describe it and what I have had in mind when I started to plan my first days in Mumbai. It’s Wednesday. Take-off day. Take-off to Mumbai where I will spend three days of my own…
Twoandahalfweeks in India – Thoughts before leaving
Just a few days before leaving Sounds promising, somehow still unrealistic and far away: Going to India. I am sitting at home with a coffee, the newspaper on the table, the family members hurrying from the bathroom to the kitchen, where is the key, Mum, I need to pay a book at school, Mum, I…
Next month you will do better, won’t you?
Do you know this? Thinking of what is happening with your health, your relationships, your business, your surroundings, your private life – you know the challenges and you know where change is needed. There is so much we can do better: care for our partners, work in a more strategic way, start to implement long…
Social and business – the two worlds are still there. We need the big vision!
The two worlds are still there. Business thinks business and social is social. Simply said. But what about the huge trend, this trendy movement becoming big and bigger which is called “Social entrepreneurship”? Yes, that’s interesting to both organization types. People like it. Just the idea to fulfill society’s needs and to combine it with…
Innovation workshops? Just do it!
The last two days I have participated in an innovation workshop around health. Located in the middle of a huge hospital center, which offered the opportunity to talk to patients and to find out quickly whether a idea developed during the workshop could work or not. So, sometimes teams in middle of their work just…
Go India, go future! 