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…
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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…
A goat health book for village people in rural India is under way – it’s time to involve local stakeholders
In the last months a group of some Animal Health managers – who had participated in an exposure week in South India in 2017 -have started to develop a goat health book to support animals and income generation for poor village and tribal people. Yesterday, two of our managers came back to our project area….
There is one health only – for animals and human beings
A few photos from our Animal Health exposure week in our tribal project area in India. In the last three years more than 10 exposure weeks have taken place here, in the rural surroundings of Coimbatore in close partnership with KKID, a NGO. More than 200 people participated. And a lot of social and social…
A next trip to India – and happy to make the next steps happen
A two week trip back to our projects is in front of me. Just sitting in the plane and waiting for departure I review the agenda. Some busy days will come. First in Mumbai discussing with my colleagues and a few local NGOs on how we can start more social activities in Mumbai itself. The…
