During the Making More Health (MMH) Insights week 12 managers from around the world have participated in a very disruptive leadership program while interacting with vulnerable communities, getting insights from local NGOs and other local stakeholders and visiting several MMH projects. However – for getting a real experience – theory needs to meet practice… One…
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Understanding the impact of our hygiene program at primary schools
During the Making More Health Insights week, a very disruptive and experience based global leadership program, our colleagues visit also school projects that we run under the Making More Health Initiative. The hygiene awareness program has several components, from toilet and wash basin installations to a very powerful set of hygiene games developed under MMH…
Social workers need digital access and skills to optimize impact
In the last years, one of our activities and programs in South India also supported the digital access for our local kindergarten teachers ( who work as informal health care workers in the tribal villages, too) and for our local NGO partners. Often it is difficult – especially for smaller NGOs – to finance their…
Making More Health in India: what’s going on?
Also in India a lot of Making More Health (MMH) activities are happening. Just to name a few: besides two new MMH kindergarten/ Anganwadi buildings, a Making More Health leadership week in July, preparations for the launch of a system changer network India and the final preparations of an apprentice exchange program between Boehringer Ingelheim…
What stays? We asked some participants of the Making More Health Leadership week
In short interviews we asked some of our participants about their learning and the general takeaways from the week in India. They tell us also about impressions from field visits and a training they had prepared for young students in a technical institute:
Takeaways from our Making More Health Insights week – coming in as strangers, leaving as friends
The Making More Health Insights week in India has come to an end. A Leadership and insights week for 15 international managers full of “experiences on the ground” in tribal villages, suburban set ups, visits to NGOs, discussions and interactions with communities living at the poverty line in our project areas in South India. This…
Do we really know the needs? Our priorities might not be theirs
Does this sounds familiar to you? You see a need, you develop a solution while going for Target group analysis, user centric models, persona concepts, field surveys…. To understand the needs a lot of models have been applied, discussed and evaluated, including consultants from extern and intern. But how often have you really interacted with…
Our leaders and colleagues having a nice lunch prepared by a woman micro entrepreneur from our communities in India
As part of our Making More Health Leadership week in July 2022 we explored also how the collaboration with two of our partners has developed over the past years – we learned from our NGO partner NMCT in Coimbatore which impact our support had locally during Covid times (especially in terms of home schooling, and…
Staying with scavenger families in India
During our visit at Vizhuthugal, one of our NGO partners close to Coimbatore, we met the whole team and many volunteers. Vizhuthugal engages on a daily basis for scavenger families and human rights. In the past two years of the Covid 19 crises we had given to the families various supports, such as health and…
Eradication of manual scavenging and community development in India
In the past 12 months – under the umbrella of the Making More Health initiative – we have started a new partnership with a local NGO in Avinashi (close to Coimbatore). Together with Vizhuthugal Social Education and development Trust, several programs have taken place to prevent children from manual scavengers families to drop out of…
Go India, go future! 