“Understanding the needs, the wants , the good and bad things of a location, of a lifestyle, of challenges people might live is not easy. You can read about it, watch TV and listen to what some people say , but it is just a small part of the reality. The reality is multidimensional with…
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When children and parents start to smile – Inaugurating a Center for visually and multiple disabled children in Mumbai
Today, we have inaugurated a center for visually and multiple disabled children at the Bai Jerbai Wadia hospital for children in Mumbai. Have a look: In front of the Wadia hospital, Mumbai The Wadia hospital is one of the best pediatric hospitals in Asia where also people with less income are treated at very high…
Visiting an elderly home in India – moments of emotions
India is a very young country in terms of demographics and in the next years they will be at the top of the world statistics. However, society is changing and the needs to take care for elderly is growing. In the last years I have observed that in many cities elderly homes have been set…
The big enigma of becoming future micro entrepreneurs
We, my colleague from Greece and myself, have arrived today in the rural areas close to Coimbatore, here where we have also launched many other trainings on health and digital, build kindergarten and toilets. But it’s time to enable people to launch small businesses on their own. There is no health without wealth. We do…
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…
Where hygiene learning and fun come together… our health training number 10!
Just two days back -as part of the ongoing health awareness training for tribal and urban self-help groups in South India – we offered module x , this time on simple surgery and hygiene. And we are very happy to see that nearly all participants from the first module training onwards are still very keen…
Interim assessment and high blood pressure measuring for 40 health workers from Self-help groups in rural India
Under the umbrella of the Making More Health initiative, today and tomorrow we conduct a high blood pressure learning session. It is part of our ongoing health worker training program for our 40 Self help group leaders in rural India. We have distributed blood pressure devices and solar battery rechargers. Starting with a repetition of…
Managers experience how to provide good food when they can spend 50 rupees per day only…
After the visit of our MMH kindergarten in Rural South India today our managers got the task to buy nutrious food for a very small amount of money (50 INR – that is what most of the families living close to the poverty line can spend per day per food). This experience gave them an…
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…
Dreams – a soccer game with Ronaldo in the Nilgiris
“Kotagiri is a beautiful Hills Station located in the Nilgiris Hills. About 33 km southeast of Ooty. It is believed to have the world’s second best climate.” That’s how the place is described in Wikitravel. But it is also a place where ancient tribes are living who up to now have been practicing a lot…
Go India, go future! 