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…
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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…
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…
Understandings from our MMH week in India – Mental health is crucial
Have you ever questioned whether your solution will really work and how other factors (than just the obvious most) might play a role if the solution fits or not? In our MMH Leadership week our managers have interacted with small holder farmers in small groups and most of all listened to what they had to…
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…
Appalam Making – a crispy bread, a better future
After two years of crises due to Covid-19 also in India normal life is coming back. This is happening at all social levels and means a lot to less wealthier people. The lockdowns and curfews as well as the situation at schools and job losses hit them the most. It is just a few days…
When children love to learn about hygiene… learning life lessons through play!
It took nearly a year. It was the idea of some colleagues who had the chance some years back to visit in the MMH insights week or projects and activities, among them also some hygiene activities at schools in India and there they could interact with students. That’s were the idea to do some thing…
A hybrid training on mental health with Indian social workers and NGO partners
Finally. After 18 months this was the first health training that we could run at our local partnership campus of the Karl Kuebel institute for development education (KKID) in rural South India. The past months we could support with food kits and hygiene measurements, but due to lockdowns and the overall situation it was not…
Women and men build our next MMH kindergarten
The kindergarten buildings are ready soon. At the moment the wall plastering is taking place. Get an idea on how women and men engage to finalize the building: video
More Health, Better Care – Two additional Making More Health kindergarten under construction
The Corona crisis is a huge challenge for the population, in the Indian cities and also in the villages. Also in our project area close to Coimbatore and the villages the situation is obvious: besides the risks of the virus itself the direct and indirect consequences are huge. The income situation in many families is…
Go India, go future! 