Change starts with understanding the root causes and by building relationships of trust with vulnerable communities – key learnings from experiences onsite. Because understanding and listening before deciding how to engage makes a big difference! Every village differs. Women development is cool. But not if we forget about men development. Have you ever thought about…
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Are you interested to invest in society, to support the most vulnerable and to make the gap between rich and poor smaller – while creating a win for you and your employees?
Then experience first what you invest in and then decide where you become active! This not about financing a project, it’s about understanding the needs, working on solutions together with communities and to see how you can make the biggest impact to enable the needy to empower themselves! From theory to practice – that’s what…
Leveraging AI for Inclusive Impact in Vulnerable Communities
Artificial Intelligence can be a powerful tool for non-government organizations to drive change, particularly in vulnerable communities. In countries like Kenya, AI is already transforming sectors like agriculture, healthcare, and education. However, if access to AI isn’t democratized, it could widen the gap between rich and poor, marginalizing vulnerable populations further. To prevent this, investing in digital literacy and local capacity-building is crucial for fostering inclusive growth and sustainable development. Would you be interested in contributing to this initiative?
We are on tour again…
It’s the 6th time now that our Boehringer Ingelheim colleagues from different departments and different sites around the world join the Making More Health insights week. It is a week full of great experiences, interactions with local people, NGOs, students, professors, governmental stakeholders, teenage mothers, people with albinism, farmers, healthcare professionals, bishops… it’s about listening…
System changer meeting (SCN) 2024 in Kenya – we have great news!
Diversity helps us, passion for humanity leads us! We belief that the impact of the past cannot be the impact of the future. That’s why we take new ways! We are on our fourth year now. The System changer network was launched in January 2022. In the first year (2021), In 2022, we officially launched…
Our SCN Kenya meeting 2024 started
Webuye, Kenya: yesterday evening (23 Jan 2024) we started for the third time our annual System Changer Network (SCN) Kenya meeting – a 3 days meeting where the nine NGOs from Central and Western Kenya who form the SCN Kenya exchange, learn and plan together how develop communities who live at the poverty line in…
How karate lessons and self help groups create a long lasting change in underserved communities
A woman in Eldoret’s Langas area shares about changes since she is part of a Making More Health self-help group.
Impact? That’s when victims have a chance to become heroes!
Recently, I met Elizabeth in her shop at the front of the Making More Health center in Webuye, Kenya. Elizabeth is a woman with albinism. Many years she – as many other people with albinism- she lived in extreme poverty, often discriminated and victim of crime. When she joined our center in 2021 her life changed from victim to heroe.
Great news from our System changer network partner TENDO – first 3 hygiene products made by underserved community members in Mukuru slums are national wide certified!
During my visit a few days back in Mukuru slums at our NGO partner TENDO (let by our Making More Health fellow Sam Agutu) we had a great moment of joy together: we could celebrate the full certification of the first three hygiene products – a TENDO shampoo, a TENDO multipurpose detergent and a TENDO…
More Mental Well-being for young “acrobats” in Nairobi’s informal settlements
An outstanding, nearly cost- free, but very impactful and creative program for the mental well-being of children: acrobats lessons in Nairobi’s slum Mukuru Sinai. One of our 8 NGO partners, VICCO, runs many diverse projects to support youth and women in one of Kenya’s largest slum areas: from urban farming and nutrition to health and…
Raising a SMART generation!
We are in the middle of a dedicated youth week in August 2023. A week for underserved children and teenagers in Kenya. Besides regular activities in CHW’s parents and youth center, health and mentoring lesson and many other activities with young people during the whole year, this week is a very particular one…
Planting trees with our young students at the Making More Health school in Kenya
29 May 2023 “On Monday our Gaaspp Team, together with some school students, has planted trees and flowers in the MMH school compound. We have planted indigenous trees to provide shade, protection of wind and as resting place for pupils, for beautification, and for soil erosion protection,” informs Chrisantus, our local NGO partner from GAASPP….
Go Kenya, go future! 