We are very proud to announce this new opportunity for EspeRare. The pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim has invited the foundation to join its programm "Making more Health". In this context EspeRare explores the possibility to create a business partnership with this big pharmaceutical company and to benefit from the pro-bono support of experts within the company to foster the foundation future development. This is the recognition for EspeRare of its pioneering model and a true encouragement to continue its commitments and growth.
About Boehringer Ingelheim
Boehringer Ingelheim is a german family-owned company created in 1885. It belongs to the world’s 20 leading pharmaceutical companies. They develop new medications of high therapeutic value for human and veterinary medicine, from development phase to marketing.
Involvment in social projects is part of Boheringer Ingelheim corporate culture, like the initiative “Making more Health” in partnership with Ashoka, an organization which identifies and support social entrepreneurs with innovative changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social problems.
About Making More Health
Boehringer Ingelheim’s initiative “Making More Health” aims to select and support most promising solutions to challenging health problems with the help of Ashoka's know-how. The pharmaceutical group brings its professional expertise in the healthcare and business sector, its experience and its management skills. The group also developed a system to foster employees commitment in these social actions.
The three axes of "Making more Health" action are the regular selection of "Fellows, a programme for young people engagement to develop new solutions in health care and a programme with company employees active on-site support.
All these concrete actions aim to bring individuals and communities innovative solutions to undeserved health problems.
To learn more about this, see following links:
http://www.makingmorehealth.org/MMH_Activities/caroline-kant.html
http://www.makingmorehealth.org/
