Health means also to have access to high quality of drinking water. The number of diseases caused by infected water for human beings and animals is still very high. Much too high – also in our Making More Health project area in rural South India. That’s why in our MMH areas close to Coimbatore, in…
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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…
From India’s mountain of waste to fashion
When I went the first time to India I was shocked by all the plastic waste on the streets, in front of the houses, in the Indian Ocean… Plastic bags, a thousands and thousands of plastic bottles, often combined with a bad smell. It does not just look ugly, but is the source for disease…
Light means life. Light means loss.
Without doubt, light means life. Light has an incredible influence on our lives. In a positive way. Safety, enabling us to move quickly and continuing with activities that a century ago simply were stopped – due to a lack of light during night. But what about all these huge cities and places that during night…
Project planning should include the waste effect
Just watching a few minutes the News is enough to comprise that there is a really big issue we all have to deal with: waste, tons and tons, mountains of waste, waste even in the most rural parts of the world. Alternatively, we can take also a short walk in the surroundings and we will…
Go India, go future! 