The kindergarten inauguration in South India in a tribal village When I arrive in the late morning and see all the people in front of the new anganwadi (kindergarten), the drumming boys welcoming everyone with an exciting sound and rhythm and the parents and children who are dressed up in the best way for the…
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Life in the Himalaya: Dangerous roads, a disaster risk reduction plan and missing health facilities
From the official ‘road’ – it is a sandy small and unsafe way with danger of landslides, rockfalls and some cars that finished thirdy, fourty meters below in the abyss – we take a secondary ‘road’, a small path that leads into a small valley. No site tails, huge stones on the road, missing…
Go Future: Health awareness, education, violance – a personal report by a woman living in rural areas
They have electricity just for two hours a day. A mother, her two children, her mother and father-in-law and her husband. Her husband suffers from mental illness. They live in Bihar in very rural areas in a small house. A smokeless chullar with a van that does not work, a solar collector that gives light…
Social entrepreneurs, where are You going to? One man or woman shows are not enough!
The trend is obvious: social entrepreneurship is ‘hip’. The number of social business conferences, socent challenges, courses offered at universities and numbers of articles published in all kind of magazines is growing obviously. Not just in USA, U.K. and a few more countries, but all over the world. In tapped and untapped markets, countries…
7weeks in India – Poverty, mental health issues and the Banyan
It is hot, humid and it smells of fish – everywhere. Men and women are sitting in front of their houses; most of them just stay there, some of them seem to sleep. Nearby, nets have been put and fixed with basket, covering fish that has been put there, one by one. The nets make…
Twoandahalfweeks in India – back in Germany
One week has passed since we left India and turned back to Europe. One week where the daily life here in Germany has re-started. Eastern. Brunch with the family. Food in all variations. Crowded supermarkets. Chocolate invasion. The streets here: somehow too clean and somehow … empty. Maybe they have cleaned up during the last…
With snacks towards a better future
Womens’ life in small cities and poor urban surrounding has always been very hard – like womens’ life in many parts of India. Women in rural areas have a long working day: they get up very early, carry huge containers of water or bundles of wood on their heads, clean the houses, engage in fieldwork…
Twoandahalfweeks in India – on the way to rural villages
At 4 am I leave Mumbai and go with a small travel group, organized by a foundation that has more than 30 projects running in India, to Dharawadi, about 200 km from Mumbai. In Dharawadi there is a learning and a social center. Here we will stay some days and visit from there villages, farmers…
A perfect day in Mumbai
The day starts with a visit at a traditional fish market. Unfortunately, after the terrorism attacks in 2008 it is forbidden to take photos. But this market is quite impressive. Crowdy place, huge amount of fish I have never seen before, women and men carrying huge baskets with fish on their heads, many young girls…
Go India, go future! 