How to make your cow happy – and managers, too!

After a week of field experiences, including discussions with veterinarians and farmers, after visiting Milk chilling plants and the agricultural university and after some exciting hours of preparation… it’s time to give back: our managers, most of them veterinarians and/or a background in Animal Health are asked to develop and to run a training for…

A match across all borders – fun, learnings and surprises

“We have made it!!!” The students from a Middle School in a rural town close to Coimbatore, South India, are happy when the game ends. They are happy because it’s just two days till the holidays at school will start. And: they are happy because in the hygiene action game against ten managers from all…

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…

Innovation? It’s a “clear case of the emperors new clothes!”

In the modern economically developed world many processes and ways to act are standardized.  A standardized school education, such as specific school subjects that have been defined during more than hundred years ago up to university studies that may vary, however certain focus areas are given. Based on what was  needed in the last century…

Going back to India and challenging myself

  It might be true: people who come the first time will hate it or love it. You come never back again or you can’t resist to come back again and again.  For me India is the country of contrasts, the one where you can find everything and often you are confronted with extremes.  Probably, that’s…

Are you a social entrepreneur? Co-creation competition launched

 Do you have a good idea on how to make more health happen? Maybe you already have your own startup or you are starting to think about it.  Covering a social need in the health area is in the focus on what you do?  Just wanted shortly inform about a recently launched co-creation competition.  Making…

Fantastic ideas to change the world – but no success?

Do you have an idea on how to bring more health  or a better education into the world or on how to fight environmental issues? But then… you fail and it feels as if there is no way to make your idea happen. There might be several reasons behind it, but one reason I experienced…

The four most inspiring moments I lived in India

  Often I’m asked: How was it in India? What did you experience? Was it safe? There must have been a lot of poverty?! Do you go back again? Working with a NGO ? A lot of questions and I could tell a lot of stories, describe places, summarize events … I might be wrong, but…