After a first intense soap production training in September 2018 with Selfhelp groups and a basic business and marketing training now – 3 months later- the women have started to produce their own soap at home – for distributing it to their families and friends. And for selling it to neighbors. That is what we…
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Incredible things happen when managers engage on a long term level
We startet activities with schools 2 years back in collaboration with our local NGO partner KKID and one of our MMH ( Making More Health initiative) fellow as well as the German government. Everyone took care of a different thing, but always with the aim of completing hygiene awareness and practice. That approach is definitely…
More wealth, more health!
Soap making can make change happen. More wealth, more health In the past we have involved people from tribal backgrounds and Self-help group members into a variety of trainings on health topics, digital trainings, safety trainings and more. The trainings have attracted a lot of people on a very regular basis and the impact is…
Where visionaries become leaders – learn more about kanthari/ South India
Today, I like to share with you some exciting news from my friends Paul and Sabriye who run a great organization in South India. Sabriye and Paul started kanthari, an institute for social change in 2009. In just 10 years, they have produced leaders who have impacted over 50,000 lives. With help of several hands-on…
How umbrellas empower tribal mothers
The situation of many tribal families in rural areas is critical. One of the main issues is malnutrition – due to qualitative poor food and a critical income. To empower families and this also nutrition on to all sustainable income sources and micro- enterprises are needed. Last day I came across an NGO, Thampu, who…
First Aid and Bone diseases prevention – a training that matters to people living close to the poverty line
A few pictures from our latest health worker trainings program on bone diseases and First Aid in rural South India. The Karl Kübel institute for development education in India, Corporate Managers from Boehringer Ingelheim and local doctors engage together under the umbrella of the Making More Health Initiative to make more health happen while focusing…
A goat training in a tribal village – when Animal Health managers create a win win for all
Let’s assume you are a high level manager. Can you imagine to run – in a rather spontaneous and very pragmatic way- a goat training in a tribal village? To get in very close contact with women who conduct a completely different life and where the daily family income is around 200 rupees ( ca…
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 –…
Innovation? It’s a “clear case of the emperors new clothes!”
In the modern economically developed world many processes and ways to act are standardized. A standardized school education, such as specific school subjects that have been defined during more than hundred years ago up to university studies that may vary, however certain focus areas are given. Based on what was needed in the last century…
Understanding Social entrepreneurship – overcoming traditional barriers
Have you heard about social entrepreneurship? You still wonder what it is all about? There might be different interpretations and understanding on what it is, different ways of emphazing more the social or the entrepreneurial aspect in it. However, thinking in social and business worlds, making our business activities and social engagment two completely separated…
Go India, go future! 