The trend is obvious: social entrepreneurship is ‘hip’. The number of social business conferences, socent challenges, courses offered at universities and numbers of articles published in all kind of magazines is growing obviously. Not just in USA, U.K. and a few more countries, but all over the world. In tapped and untapped markets, countries…
Category: social entrepreneurship
Social Entrepreneurship has many faces
This week I participated in the Ashoka Social Entrepreneurship conference in Berlin. Besides the official workshops and speeches given in the big glass building of the Allianzforum I had the possibility to speak to many social entrepreneurs cooperating with investors, traditional NGOs and Corporate enterprises. It is fascinating to see how all are looking…
7weeks in India – Meeting the cashew nut maker
Cashew nuts are a popular snack – probably all over the world – and a healthy food source, full of energy, antioxidants and minerals. Have you ever seen where they grow and how the processing from the tree to the final nice eatable nut works? We visit a rural region in the surroundings of Pondicherry,…
7weeks in India – Female tribal self-help groups building their own future
The mushroom cultivation – it is just one small business idea for poor women that could lead to a different way of life. When we enter the tribal village most of the women are working on the right and the left of a small muddy road that takes us to the mushroom cultivation facility. Day-workers….
Banana business and the tribal king in the Cardamom hills
If you ever want to see the beauty of tea fields in all variations you should come to the Mūnan area in Kerala, an area where old tribal families live. There are many woods around and the green covers most of the homes. It takes time to understand how many people live here. There are…
7weeks in India – Meeting the inventor lady
Today it is rainy, one of the last Monsun days. We, that’s an village representative (volunteer) and me, walk through tea fields and wet woods to meet and to find out more on her: Lilama, an old woman with a bright smile in her face and some really special skills. When she was young she…
7weeks in India – Poverty, mental health issues and the Banyan
It is hot, humid and it smells of fish – everywhere. Men and women are sitting in front of their houses; most of them just stay there, some of them seem to sleep. Nearby, nets have been put and fixed with basket, covering fish that has been put there, one by one. The nets make…
India, Blindia and another travel to Tamil Nadu coming soon
For sure, there are several blogs that focus on India. Today, I found a special one: http://blindien.wordpress.com Unfortunately, it is available in German only. But it shows how a blind person together with his son travelled through Kerala and … really enjoyed, learned and experienced a different culture and an unknown country. It makes you…
Culture of Health in India – who can help?
Culture of health in rural areas of India Since I have come back to Germany I try to understand more on health issues in India, mainly the situation in rural areas in the South (Kerala and Tamil Nadu) It is not that much about diseases, hospitals, medicines I am looking for. Nor about statistics, facts…
Are you a silo worker or a real changemaker?
Often it starts with a brilliant, but short-term based idea: let’s build an app for xyz, let’ s do a social campaign, let’s plan an event. Let’s create a project or type of startup. Said and done and voilá the result… And it is good to start. Just theoretic paper writing has never changed anything….
Go India, go future! 