Its a very warm welcome when we arrive and in the following two hours we learn a lot about the activities of the institute and the programmes they run with the farmers in the surroundings of Coimbatore. It’s a small team working here, but the impact and agile set up of the activities allows them…
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Tomorrow starts pilot training focusing on Animal health & social entrepreneurial activities in South India
After many interesting and impactful leadership weeks with Corporate managers in the rural and tribal areas in South India and a number of concrete activities as a result of it – e.g. the set up of digital trainings with kindergarten teachers and a two years program on raising health awareness in the same region –…
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…
5 learnings About Health Programs – Safety & environment awareness empowers disadvantaged people
” I learned in this training to identify in my personal daily life where and how I can avoid risks to protect myself and my family,” tells me one of the self help group members of a suburb close to Coimbatore, South India. “I will share this with my friends and neighbors. This is something…
Making More Health (MMH) is for all: When young girls start to change the world
Yesterday, I met the two girls in one of our Making More Health awareness training modules on “Safety and environment issues in daily life” which we run with urban and rural self-help group leaders in the surrounding of Coimbatore, South India. This 13 &14 years old years old girls, Sathya and Anjali from Kallukkadu…
More social entrepreneurial activities in rural South India – where health meets wealth!
A lot of programs have been launched under the umbrella of Boehringer Ingelheim’s Making More Health initiative in India in the past three years and are ongoing, such as our health awareness program driven by the company’s managers and experts that helps selfhelp group members of rural South India to get more knowledge in mental…
2nd Mental health training for women in Rural India
Mental health is often not the focus of educational or health programs when it comes to developmental activities run by NGOs or big companies. But what if missing self-confidence, uncertainty, stress, relationships and alcohol make it very difficult to change or develop anything? That’s why we started mental health trainings for the tribal women in…
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…
A kindergarten teacher of rural India talks about digital access
Digital is simply key to education, health and wealth. After a first digital training with 15 kindergarten teacher from rural India we run an interview with one of the participants. Watch the video Related content: In South India, in the rural areas of Attappadi, 15 kindergarten teachers received their first tablets, participated in a…
Kindergarten teacher platform launched -because digital is key to all!
A few weeks ago we have launched a platform for all kindergarten and anganwadi teachers in India, called mymmh.org. If you are interested to have a look at it or to collaborate, please feel invited to join us. The Mymmh platform is open and accessible to everyone – all over the world. How it started…
Go India, go future! 