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…
Category: Tamil Nadu
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…
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…
Micro entrepreneurial activities- the Biriyani banana leaf makers
On my way to a shop I met a very interesting micro entrepreneurial family in one of the small secondary streets in the center of Coimbatore, South India. A lady sitting in front of a door is looking friendly at me when I pass by while cutting onions. I’m interested in finding out why she…
How health trainings create impact
Today we have run our last health community worker training (out of 12 training units in the last 18 months) with 30 people from Selfhelp groups – this time on respiratory issues. Two colleagues of mine were preparing and implementing it together with the local NGO and a local doctor and taught two days this…
A new MMH kindergarten project in rural India is on its way
Just a few days ago I got some pictures on how it looks today: a kindergarten (anganwadi) building for young children between 0-6 years in the rural areas in South India. The South is the most developed part of the country, but the situation for the poor is still critical: hygiene, safety and health threatening…
More health? Then empower people through digital knowledge to take care
… because health means to empower people to care about themselves! Besides the access to Internet (which is available in many rural parts of the world) it is important to teach basic digital knowledge to those who are living in poor surroundings: about how to handle devices, how to use the Internet and writing emails….
Impact means when women make soaps at home and health and wealth grow
After a first intense soap production training in September 2018 with Selfhelp groups and a basic business and marketing training now – 3 months later- the women have started to produce their own soap at home – for distributing it to their families and friends. And for selling it to neighbors. That is what we…
Women‘s health – a topic with taboos, but highly appreciated
Our XI trainings module from our health worker Programme has taken place on 26 and 27 November 2018 with 48 participants. The programme was resourced by a local healthcare professional, Dr.Jisha and Dr.Montderrat Closa from Boehringer Ingelheim, Spain. The training covered women’s anatomy, hormonal changes like puberty, first menstrual period, menopause. Various contraceptive methods, menstrual…
Go India, go future! 