Since 2015 we run now the 28th Insights Week with Corporate managers from different countries „on the ground“ in India, interacting with vulnerable communities living at the poverty line. Our first field visit in India has begun. For managers visiting from across the world, this is more than just a trip—it’s an immersion into real-world…
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Social workers need digital access and skills to optimize impact
In the last years, one of our activities and programs in South India also supported the digital access for our local kindergarten teachers ( who work as informal health care workers in the tribal villages, too) and for our local NGO partners. Often it is difficult – especially for smaller NGOs – to finance their…
…because the future starts with our children
A few days back, Eszter Harsyani, a social entrepreneur from Hungary, running the organization Nestingplay, and our local partner NGO in India, the Karl Kubel institute for development education, have run together a session with kindergarten teachers, teachers and parents on early childhood development. As one participant said:“I liked the teaching methods. They are easy…
Women and men build our next MMH kindergarten
The kindergarten buildings are ready soon. At the moment the wall plastering is taking place. Get an idea on how women and men engage to finalize the building: video
More Health, Better Care – Two additional Making More Health kindergarten under construction
The Corona crisis is a huge challenge for the population, in the Indian cities and also in the villages. Also in our project area close to Coimbatore and the villages the situation is obvious: besides the risks of the virus itself the direct and indirect consequences are huge. The income situation in many families is…
20 years celebration of our local MMH partner KKID in India – a huge honor for our MMH projects!
“Power, fame and wealth are ok – when the means to get there are ok. – It’s about thinking which values we want to follow in this world. Which are our goals and why? How we act to get there? What do we teach students at school to go where? Is it about competition and…
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….
Managers experience how to provide good food when they can spend 50 rupees per day only…
After the visit of our MMH kindergarten in Rural South India today our managers got the task to buy nutrious food for a very small amount of money (50 INR – that is what most of the families living close to the poverty line can spend per day per food). This experience gave them an…
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…
Go India, go future! 