Christine, one of my colleagues at Boehringer Ingelheim who joined our Making more Health leadership week in last November, had a great idea: after visiting our schools where we run also hygiene programs with one of our Making More Health Fellows and where during the leadership week our managers had a very meaningful and insightful…
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Chat and joy with teachers and children
In our project area in Tamil Nadu close to Coimbatore we reach out to schools, too. Together with our local NGO partner we support hygiene projects for three schools. Recently, our managers also came and engaged in hygiene games with the children. See this article Now, after the first two years, it’s time to include…
A grid for students – because health starts with prevention
In one of the schools in South India we run together with our local NGO partner (Karl Kübel institute for development education) and a social entrepreneur from our network a large hygiene program. During one of the last visits we had a conversation about various topics, among them a very simple to solve but risky…
Paper works and packaging – next steps for Self-help groups and income generation
A two day Making More Health training with our self-help- groups from Coimbatore and surroundings has started. It’s part of our activities to train women to create some additional income thus empowering them and their families. Because more wealth leads to more opportunities to invest in health. “This time we will learn how to upcycle…
More health? Then empower people through digital knowledge to take care
… because health means to empower people to care about themselves! Besides the access to Internet (which is available in many rural parts of the world) it is important to teach basic digital knowledge to those who are living in poor surroundings: about how to handle devices, how to use the Internet and writing emails….
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…
