Have you ever thought how kindergarten paintings in the different countries might reflect the culture? What about the colours, the teaching elements, the size of the paintings? Which content is visualized? That’s how kindergarten paintings in India look – where it is possible to build new ones. The Making More Health Initiative in collaboration…
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When poor girls learn about graphic design
It’s a small project, but one of those projects which makes a difference in the lives of young adults. Directly, without too much theoretical thinking how to do it, but just by starting and making a difference – step by step. The idea is simple, but effective . The location? An orphanage in Mangalore, India….
Using a game: income generation and more for selfhelp group women
“It was in 1977 that we have started to put a lot of energy into social work and to set up Self help groups and skill trainings for poor women from urban, rural and tribal areas around Karamadai,” Rev. sister Anila from the Good Shephard convent in Karamadai, Tamil Nadu tells me. She is really…
What the lack of Internet means to rural Indian Kindergarten Teachers
At 10.30 am the Workshop should start. When I enter the meeting room at 10 am most of the 15 kindergarten teachers are already sitting in the room and waiting. Whoever says that all Indian meetings starts much later than fixed is wrong. We will work together on a health game and discuss the…
Where street kids & elderly people can feel at home – until the night comes
At 7 am some children already wait in front of the door of this drop-in center. Some of the children look very tired and want to sleep, others look forward to staying and playing together in the upcoming hours; a few of them are still under drugs. But they all have one common aim: washing,…
The Sugarcane children of Negros
When we enter the classroom they are already waiting. It’s Monday, a special and additional school day for the students who normally just come to school on Saturday. They are between 10 and 24 years old. They sit together, in one room. Some of them try to get the elementary school certificate, others are keen…
Are you a storyteller? Support kindergarten project
I am looking at the moment for some short “mirror” stories for Indian kindergarten children in rural and tribal areas as I want to publish a book on mirror stories for these children. Not for profit. I’m looking for stories which we could use and share with the kindergarten centers, where the children can directly…
Colourful kindergarten paintings in India and an innovative learning culture for better managers
During the last year I have visited some Indian kindergarten – mostly in rural areas in the South where nature, water and animals play a huge role in many people’s life. There are still a lot of old small buildings and often the surroundings are quite unhealthy: Inhouse smoking (cooking places), wet walls,…
How the tribal women gave me a big surprise yesterday
Five months have passed since I have been visiting the tribal village where months ago we had a very good time together with knitting lessons, cooking and more. I’m traveling with a group of my company this week and today we have come here for a short village visit because I want to show them…
The Mobile school in Dallas area and learning about self-esteem
Just imagine you are at the borders of a huge city. On one site you have the city life, shops, cars and trams, power, drinking water … on the other there live poor people who live from collecting plastic bottles, single mothers with six, eight children, people who are not accepted elsewhere. And in the…
Go India, go future! 