Why local women self help groups play an important role when farmers bring huge arid areas back to life Vibha Varghees, CEO from the organization Vikasana, is one of our nine core NGO partners in the System Changer Network India. Vikasana is located in Karnataka, South India – a 6 hours drive away from Bangalore….
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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 goat health book for village people in rural India is under way – it’s time to involve local stakeholders
In the last months a group of some Animal Health managers – who had participated in an exposure week in South India in 2017 -have started to develop a goat health book to support animals and income generation for poor village and tribal people. Yesterday, two of our managers came back to our project area….
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.
Visiting a Cocoon market
There are two big cocoon markets in Tamil Nadu (South India) where farmers gather in the early morning and sell the harvest. One of these markets is in Coimbatore. Farmers from 100 km away are coming here. 1.5 tons are sold daily at the market. With our manager group participating in our Making More Health…
If human are healthy then animals are healthy and vice versa
For two days tribal and urban Selfhelp group members have been trained in Animal Health, 50 participants in total under the umbrella of our Making More Health initiative. The programme was resourced by a local doctor in close collaboration with a Veterinarian of our company and the support of a local NGO. The focus lied…
Visit at the veterinary university, training & research center
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…
Understanding basics about small farm holders’ life in South India
After the successful implementation of the Making More Health Insights week in India – more than 100 managers from Boehringer Ingelheim participated in the last 2,5 years – this time a new pilot week “MMH in action” has been launched. MMH in Action aims to focus on specific target groups in our focus area…
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 –…
Twoandahalfweeks in India – a day at TNAU and the milky mushrooms
One of the things that will remain in my mind is the milky mushroom production we have seen during our stay at the Tamil Nadu Agriculture university (TNAU) in Coimbatore. The TNAU focuses on Agricultural Education and Research and supports the State Agricultural Department by delivering research products. When we arrived at the university our…
Go India, go future! 