Developing social entrepreneurial ideas for food safety and food security – this is the task in this year‘s Making More Health Venture4change program for students in Western Kenya. On Friday last week 50 students from three universities (Eldoret university, Moi university and Kibabii university) – after first theoretical sessions- learned directly from the ground while…
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Why managers need exposure on the ground and what is the learning for a NGO?
There are a lot of presumptions when managers talk about emerging countries and how it might look on the ground. Often the knowledge is a learned one only – through facts, figures or third parties who do research. But is this enough to really understand what is needed, what can create a benefit and maybe…
Managers on tour: loosing control, gaining disruptive insights, creating shared value! Join us!
The Insights weeks, started in 2015 under the umbrella of the Making More Health Initiative, are making a difference for the participants and for society. These are leadership & disruptive innovation driven weeks with a Shared Value! Now opening up to managers and decision makers from your companies! Because we can change the world for…
Washable sanitary pads, many girls & women who cannot afford and a crazy world
In the time of too many plastics and environmental damage also hygiene articles such as pampers and sanitary pads should be questioned. New products are a must. Although the motivation for alternative products might be a different one in Emerging countries compared to the big discussions in the rich countries, the result might go in…
There is magic when we put dots together and connect people
After a very successful leadership week with more than 20 managers in Bungoma county in Kenya, after launching very concrete projects on the ground with farmers, teachers and with the buy in also from the governmental site, after a first income generation training and a huge youth venture program launch at Nairobi and a concrete…
How a leadership week can impact smallholder farmers‘ life
As one disruptive leadership development element of our Making More Health’s Insights weeks we ask our leaders to prepare, pitch and to implement a training that has an impact for the people living close to the poverty line. This time we asked them to train farmers in Bungoma county on basic business skills. During the…
When NGOs co-create with Business – thoughts from our local NGO partner in Kenya
Listen to the thoughts from our NGO partner. Chrisantus works as a local social worker in Bungoma county where we run several projects together for farmers, teachers, parents and people with albinism. In this interview he talks about the added value on the ground when NGOs and companies work together: Video
Social entrepreneurial Leadershipweek in rural Kenya has started
More than twenty managers from different countries and different functions have come to Kenya to participate in a very disruptive leadership week under the umbrella of the Making more Health initiative from Boehringer Ingelheim in close collaboration with our partner Ampath*. While these leadership weeks have been done for more than four years already in…
Go Kenya, go future! 