On 13 June is the international albinism day. Together, with our local NGO partners Positive Exposure Kenya and Golden Age Albinism Support Program (GAASP) we have started 2 years ago to support people with albinism in Kenya. With health trainings, but also supporting them to grow with income and general knowledge. And awareness campaigns in…
Food, hygiene, houses to live in – it’s basic needs for each human being
Our people in our MMH community in Bungoma county, West Kenya who have been affected by floods and lost their jobs due the Covid crises today received their 2nd month food support. The situation is still critical, especially for the elderly and marginalized people. The lack of sanitary towels “Another big challenge our women and…
A ‚must see film‘ from a Nobel peace prize nominee about a visit in East Africa and kanthari graduates
One of the most amazing and inspiring people and friends I have met on my life are Nobel peace prize nominee Sabriye Tenberken and Paul Kroneberg, founders of Kanthari, a trainings center for all who want to change the world for better. That‘s why I share today a press release on a Documentary “KANTHARI –…
Call for testing at school in Mukuru slum
Together with the Mukuru Aganza film academy in Nairobi, and under the umbrella of the Makingmorehealth initiative we run a Covid19 awareness campaign to inform people about measurements they can take to protect themselves and for participating in free testing. For example with posters as the one shown above – targeting a lot of people…
A health and meeting center for women in the slums in Eldoret
Langas is the second biggest slum area in Kenya. Here in Eldoret, together with our NGO partner Solwodi/Solasa we build a Health and Meeting center for women and children. In a few months the old small houses where they meet and are trained at the moment cannot be used any more. We, under the umbrella…
Drinking water issues in Homabay – water purifiers urgently needed
The situation of the people in Homabay who have lost their homes due to the floods of the past weeks is critical. Willis, a local climate change ambassador explains how the situation looks at the moment. Just watch this Video. With the donations of some employees we could provide some support for clean drinking water….
Awareness campaigns in slum areas
“We are continuing with community sensitization and Covid19 awareness in the slum. We are making use of social media platforms, from various groups within the informal settlement, community Radio station and also door to door in order to reach out to as many households as possible. Happy that out of the 13 sectors we have…
Making More Health collaborates with SOLWODI/Solasa in the slums of Eldoret
“In accordance to the situation with the virus , we took it into our own hands as an organization to do the survey with our vulnerable families to see how exactly the situation is on the ground whereby we came to find out that 90% of our clients have highly been affected by covid-19 pandemic….
How school bags help farmer families to survive and create additional benefit
Our farmers, close to Webuye in Western Kenya are organized in cooperatives. They are one of the communities we work with under the umbrella of our Making More Health initiative. When I visited the Kibisi Farming cooperative group the last time we launched together with employees from Boehringer Ingelheim and local trainers regular farming training…
Empowering others means to empower many – how networking empowers us in the fight against COVID19!
A few days ago we supported Positive Exposure Kenya, one of our local partners in Nairobi focusing to support people with albinism. we run several activities together. Now, the Covid19 crises is giving all additional challenges. Big ones. We gave them the means to produce masks and to help in this way to share the…
