Interested to experience your own agility, to learn about social entrepreneurial thinking and systemic approaches while interacting with people living at the poverty line, local businesses and other local stakeholders? Are you someone who wants to make a real lasting and meaningful difference in the world? Who wants to learn by doing instead of planning…
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Do we really invest enough and in impactful ways when it comes to developmental support for poor communities?
“This pic is of a borehole which had been left open. These boreholes you can find in many places. The communities get water from it. Often these boreholes have no cover which makes it very risky to small children and aged people. It’s all seasoned boreholes, ca. 40ft deep,” explains our local NGO partner. It…
India: Lockdown leads to human tragedies and hit homeless and children even more
Good friends of mine in Thrivandrum run a learning center for social entrepreneurs and are in contact with many of them who have founded social organizations in the country. They post daily information on how things are going where their ex students have set up social entrepreneurial activities in India and all over the world….
New bags designed by tailoring women group in Karamadai, South India
It’s three years now that we started to train a women group on tailoring. The women have learned so much in these years: stitching, embroidery and tailoring in many ways. Together with them I produce a lot of our marketing material for our Making More Health Initiative here in Indis: soap bags, game pads for…
Soap contest among self- help groups – Women present their soaps today – your opinion counts
It was a really exciting day today. Our five teams of self-help group women presented their soap and packaging ideas in front of our first judging panel. It was a huge milestone in our ongoing soap contest where we had trained the women some months ago and launched a contest. The best ideas will be…
An Indian NGO that cares about children of prisoners
Prisoners who kill their spouse in domestic disputes leave behind children who are orphaned. In many cases, when a father kills a mother, their child becomes an orphan and these children are even stigmatized. What will happen to them? A career that leads to prison, too? Or is there a chance and also the good…
Go India, go future! 