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…
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System Changer Network India – here we are!
There are many networks in the world, mostly topic- or people related, formal or informal, aiming to share or to put efforts together. There are also many networks in the NGO world, on national and international level. So, why another one? The System Changer Network India aims to build system solutions, following system of systems…
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…
Takeaways from our Making More Health Insights week – coming in as strangers, leaving as friends
The Making More Health Insights week in India has come to an end. A Leadership and insights week for 15 international managers full of “experiences on the ground” in tribal villages, suburban set ups, visits to NGOs, discussions and interactions with communities living at the poverty line in our project areas in South India. This…
Our leaders and colleagues having a nice lunch prepared by a woman micro entrepreneur from our communities in India
As part of our Making More Health Leadership week in July 2022 we explored also how the collaboration with two of our partners has developed over the past years – we learned from our NGO partner NMCT in Coimbatore which impact our support had locally during Covid times (especially in terms of home schooling, and…
Company owners, Corporate Social Responsibility/Sustainability managers: are you ready to leave your comfort zone?
Interested to experience your own agility, to learn about social entrepreneurial thinking and systemic approaches while interacting with people living at the poverty line, local businesses and other local stakeholders? Are you someone who wants to make a real lasting and meaningful difference in the world? Who wants to learn by doing instead of planning…
Staying with scavenger families in India
During our visit at Vizhuthugal, one of our NGO partners close to Coimbatore, we met the whole team and many volunteers. Vizhuthugal engages on a daily basis for scavenger families and human rights. In the past two years of the Covid 19 crises we had given to the families various supports, such as health and…
Sustainable change needs a systemic change
Have you ever asked yourself why the gap between rich and poor is continously growing in our world? Why the number of people at the poverty line, people with low or no access to food, education or health has not changed so much in the last 50 years? Why so many efforts, porjects and activities…
Raising awareness in a worsening mental health crisis in India
How an Indian psychiatrist engages to break the stigma COVID-19 has forced people all over the world to stand still, to stay at home, to distance themselves from stabilizing social environments, to lose job opportunities and to let go of dreams. Some have lost their loved ones, others are on the brink of financial ruin,…
An interview I’m grateful for – thoughts about myself and my engagement for a better world
This is a very personal article, a very personal video about system thinking and change making and about what drives myself – I hope you enjoy and find something in it that also inspires YOU. Your comments & ideas are very welcome. Sometimes in life there are unexpected opportunities coming up – and we have…
Go India, go future! 