Our Making More Health Farmer Cooperatives in Western Kenya comprise ca 12000 farmers and their families. In average 8 people are part of each household. That’ about 100 000 people. The need for basic health and health prevention is very high.

That’s why some months back one of our Boehringer employees, being a healthcare professional himself, travelled to our Making More Health centers in Kenya and started several First Aid training sessions with underserved communities in rural and urban set ups.

The First Aid training is now locally “owned” and done. It becomes a regular offer and empowers locals to save lifes!

“We have launched now a series of First Aid trainings that is focusing on our motorbike taxi drivers, the so called Boda boda taxis, the main transport used by our rural community members. In our First aid training to the Kibisi Bodaboda welfare group 66 participants attended. The training is facilitated by a local medical practitioner from kibisi dispensary who attended our first aid training last year in our MMH center,” shared Cleophas, leader of one of our Core NGO partners from Core Health & Wealth. “This is part of the road safety initiative. The boda boda riders have been trained on first aid to ensure they can respond to emergencies on the road. They have been trained on road safety and several have qualified to receive rider’s licences. This is helping safe lives.”

The training is given by a local expert. The public health specialist was among the health workers trained by the Boehringer Ingelheim healthcare professional. He has adapted the program and and uses the demonstration first aid kit received then.

It is a great example on how the collaboration and engagement and skill sharing of our employees impact underserved communities. The existing local MMH infrastructures done in close collaboration with local NGO partners, the MMH centers where many activities take regularly place, the active network among all partners and skill sharing models, the trust built with the communities have been set over the past years and are essential for a long-term sustainable change for better in the communities.

We are proud to see the local scale up of mMh training sessions and the ongoing implementation supported actively by our local partners and communities!

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Background info:

The First Aid training is one Making More Health activity among many others I several parts of Kenya: general health prevention, women and men health, income generating activities, trainings on basic business and digital skills, Animal Health trainings and any rabbies vaccinations, water hygiene and harvesting, farming, cultural awareness programs …