First Harvest! Zero Dumping Waste Management in Action from Food and Vegetable Waste After just 50 days of hands-on learning and community dedication, something remarkable has taken root — not just in the soil, but in the mindset of three unique locations in Southern India. We’re proud to celebrate the first harvest from our Zero…
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Exposure to Other Realities: A Key to Growth and Bridging Inequality
Exposure to other realities is not a luxury—it’s essential for growth, development, and innovation. And it’s a powerful tool for bridging the gap between rich and poor! In the past weeks, I’ve shared insights from our colleagues and leaders , managers from different countries, who visited the System Changer Network India, engaging with local NGOs…
Day 4 of our Making More Health Insights Week in India – Experiencing Sustainable Impact and Understanding Vulnerable Communities
Today we continued our journey to explore social impact, sustainability, and innovation in some of India’s most vulnerable communities. We had the incredible opportunity to visit the Todas tribe, an indigenous community with a rich cultural heritage and unique way of life. Learning about their traditions, challenges, and sustainable practices gave us a new perspective…
Caring for the Carers – Learning from the Field in Tamil Nadu, India
Have you ever thought about what it really means to be a long-term carer? The emotional, physical, and financial toll it takes? How it affects personal relationships, self-confidence, and mental health? Around the world, carers—those who dedicate their lives to supporting family members with disabilities, mental health conditions, or chronic illnesses—often go unnoticed and unsupported….
Demystifying volunteering – our System changer network India partners and others revealing the true essence of volunteering and the profound impact it can create.
On 21. June 2024 a very interesting 2 days event took place where several international and national companies, NGOs and we as Making More Health participated. The topic: demystifying volunteering. The goal of the event: Understanding better employee volunteering as a huge opportunity for the non profit sector. In the past, there was mostly expected…
Practical insights while working with vulnerable communities
Why local women self help groups play an important role when farmers bring huge arid areas back to life Vibha Varghees, CEO from the organization Vikasana, is one of our nine core NGO partners in the System Changer Network India. Vikasana is located in Karnataka, South India – a 6 hours drive away from Bangalore….
A mind blowing week to discover opportunities of change and sustainability
Our first Making More Health Leadership week this year in India has started two days ago. We visit several core partner NGOs from our System Changer Network India, interact with underserved communities, reflect and share also- based on their needs- some skills to empower them. The training given by us will be done by end…
A successful outcome for our NGOs and ambassadors under the umbrella of the SCN India
What an excitement among our System Changer Network India (SCN India) members! Yesterday, in the early evening we have run a 30 minutes multiple choice test on all the topics we had trained during the year. Would they be able to answer more than 70% in the right way – out of 62 questions? Boehringer…
When sustainability investments have some bad site effects…
When sustainability investments have some bad site effects… Sustainable is good. Thinking sustainably, acting sustainably. Investing sustainably and, above all, in an impactful and socially entrepreneurial manner is a big trend. But what if there are unwanted side effects? Yesterday, I was in a children’s home in Tarikere, India. 25 girls between 11 and 17…
Repaying 9000 rupees (100 EUR) in 5 years – about business struggles of people living at the poverty line
Just imagine you have grown up in poor surroundings, maybe a slum area or maybe a remote village. Some years of schools – maybe. Your life has been mostly about finding ways to survive. Getting fresh water, enough food. Sometimes your family had a little income. Daily wages. But also many days without. Many critical…
Go India, go future! 