From field visits in tribal villages in Tamil Nadu to one of the biggest and most known Innovation hubs in Bangalore: just a 50 minutes flight away. A short flight that connects ancient times and the future! Today, I had a meeting with Nasscom startup warehouse and I have met some startups who are part…
Tag: development
A change that the world needs – that’s why experiencing through leadership weeks counts
The 9th “MMH Insight leadership week” in India. Together with our Animal Health and Innovation weeks more than 200 managers from all the world have now participated in this learning experience and many of them have started their own social entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial (from within) projects – in their home countries or in our Indian…
Making More Health – Soap Competition launched for self-help groups
After two days of paper making and raw soap experiments the next step to share more skills and knowledge with women is done. Empower women to make more health happen. But more health means also that people can finance it and have income. That’s why health and wealth belong together. With these trainings we empower…
Paper works and packaging – next steps for Self-help groups and income generation
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…
Autism and early childhood – an Indian trust that cares
“There is still a huge lack of awareness when it comes to autism and children,” Dr. Prathibha Karanth explains. She is a very engaged and warm-hearted person and known for her lifetime engagement for children with autism all over India. “Often parents do not recognize it at an early stage, they don’t want to see…
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…
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…
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…
Just in case you want to read more about our Kenyan activities…
Besides http://www.goIndiagofuture.com you can have a look at http://www.Kenyagofuture.com. We have started first projects also in the African continent… Enjoy and your feedback is always welcome.
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…