In the Modern world fancy soap is a nice way to attract customers. And the creativity on how to prepare and offer soap with different ingredients, in different formats and sizes seems to be endless. But soap is also key for health and many people in the world don’t have access to these luxurious pieces…
Category: social impact
Imagine there are no vessels for cooking in a rural kindergarten – sometimes small contributions can make a big impact!
Today, three interior anganwadis (rural kindergarten in India) received vessels like plates, thumplers, other cooking vessels as well as chairs for children and adults. The three anganwadis are in poor south Indian villages, approachable only by walking and climbing up the hills. Children and teachers are very happy. These anganwadi did not have basic vessels…
A goat training in a tribal village – when Animal Health managers create a win win for all
Let’s assume you are a high level manager. Can you imagine to run – in a rather spontaneous and very pragmatic way- a goat training in a tribal village? To get in very close contact with women who conduct a completely different life and where the daily family income is around 200 rupees ( ca…
Understanding basics about small farm holders’ life in South India
After the successful implementation of the Making More Health Insights week in India – more than 100 managers from Boehringer Ingelheim participated in the last 2,5 years – this time a new pilot week “MMH in action” has been launched. MMH in Action aims to focus on specific target groups in our focus area…
Rich or poor? It depends on our perception
All is just as rich or poor as the context we are aware of. But seeing two worlds in one pic gives an idea how big is the challenge to make change for better happen: Dubai vs Rural India – where do you prefer to live? Think twice before deciding. Which is your favorite and…
Making More Health (MMH) is for all: When young girls start to change the world
Yesterday, I met the two girls in one of our Making More Health awareness training modules on “Safety and environment issues in daily life” which we run with urban and rural self-help group leaders in the surrounding of Coimbatore, South India. This 13 &14 years old years old girls, Sathya and Anjali from Kallukkadu…
2nd wave of digital trainings for kindergarten teachers in rural India started
Yesterday, we launched – for the second time after the successful pilot started in 2016 – the first out of three modules around Digital knowledge for a new group of anganwadi teachers in the rural surroundings of Attappadi (close to Coimbatore, South India) Twenty women participated with a huge interest in gaining digital knowledge. How…
The world needs network builders and doers to make more change happen – Visiting impact projects in Maharashtra
Today I visited some projects in rural/ tribal areas in Maharashtra driven by the Social Impact foundation which started its activities 30 years back supported by the UN and the government. They run a bundle of different activities with women and adolescents in tribal areas – from fighting against mal- and undernutrition, women health awareness…
Sometimes it takes just a small idea to change the world for better! How marketing for CSR activities can become sustainable
Many companies run huge Corporate responsibility and citizenship initiatives or engage somehow in social areas. Of course, they do it and they talk about it and use it also to position their own organisation as a social player – which is quite fair. What, if we do these huge campaigns and marketing activities in a…
Winning the 2017 Asia Best Practices Award – our learnings
With the bundle of projects and activities which are also described in this blog ( health awareness trainings, work with kindergarten, digital trainings …) we were honored in August with the 2017 Asia Best Practices Award for our successful work in South India. It is the highest award for international companies and their socially responsible…
Go India, go future! 