Today, we are with Making More Health in Genève: „Health is about changing mindsets and about connecting people. About facilitating and promoting partnerships across countries to co-create, it’s about delivering a better future based on innovation and innovative thinking and doing….“ Thoughts we exchanged today in a panel session at UN. I’m very proud for…
Category: social entrepreneurship
Visiting Nasscom, one of the big tech startup hubs in Bangalore
From field visits in tribal villages in Tamil Nadu to one of the biggest and most known Innovation hubs in Bangalore: just a 50 minutes flight away. A short flight that connects ancient times and the future! Today, I had a meeting with Nasscom startup warehouse and I have met some startups who are part…
Making More Health – Soap Competition launched for self-help groups
After two days of paper making and raw soap experiments the next step to share more skills and knowledge with women is done. Empower women to make more health happen. But more health means also that people can finance it and have income. That’s why health and wealth belong together. With these trainings we empower…
Paper works and packaging – next steps for Self-help groups and income generation
A two day Making More Health training with our self-help- groups from Coimbatore and surroundings has started. It’s part of our activities to train women to create some additional income thus empowering them and their families. Because more wealth leads to more opportunities to invest in health. “This time we will learn how to upcycle…
Letter from a Self-help group participant in our digital training in rural India
In the last two days two colleagues supporting our Making More Health initiative have been in India. Together with our local NGO partner they have run digital training on how to use a tablet and learned about email usage. Also Cyber security was a topic. The training aims to enable people from the ground to…
When Business links to Social – Anil Patil taking care on carers
During our Making More Health exposure week with 20 business people at KKID (our partner NGO close to Coimbatore , South India) we had some very interesting insights and discussion also with Anil Patil. Anil is a social entrepreneur and Ashoka/Making More Health Fellow in our network. His big vision is to set up a…
