While in 2020 the MMH center was set up, the buildings were constructed and first training sessions on health took place, now the activities have grown – in numbers and topics. Many people join for the training sessions, even living in neighborhood counties. Training sessions on health topics and safety, special care for people with…
Category: Rural life
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Our Making More Health Center in Webuye, Kenya is growing
The construction works in our Making More Health Center in Webuye are going on. Only a few months have passend since we inaugurated the first buildings, a training hall for health and hygiene sessions and a production room for e.g. soap. We have started to run a lot of different training sessions for the communities,…
Women health kits are on the road
Some weeks ago we ran a webinar where we shared information about our local projects on women health. Our local NGO partners and social entrepreneurs explained how the situation is getting even more difficult for women as the accessibility to hygiene pads for many of them is not given (any more). The situation has always…
Two chicken for a better life
Just imagine you or your children are people with albinism. A genetic condition that makes life difficult, especially in Africa. Not so much, because if the condition itself, but mostly because of superstition, misbeliefs, exclusion in schools and later on often no jobs – poverty among families with people with albinism is widely spread…with all…
Do you think your house is not good enough? Well, think twice!
My house is not big enough, my house faces only a small terrace, my house needs definitely a fitness room and sauna, my house needs to be perfect… People in the “rich” world are often unhappy and dream of better, bigger, individual luxury. Are they happy? Difficult to say. It seems that the level of…
Students should not sit in the mud … huge impact with small solutions!
Waaau! The school tent is ready. The pupils are happy and even for the school headteacher it is a big step forward. “What a great idea and salvation done to this needy pupils in this school! At least we can now teach in a classroom even though not permanent, but we are now covered with…
More schools get involved in our awareness programs about albinism and health
Today, our local GAASPP – MMH team visited one of the schools in the neighborhood that host our community children with Albinism together with our children who have vision problems. “We taught them on hygiene, enhanced advocacy and trained the staff on how to handle children with Albinism,” explains Chrisantus our local project manager. “These…
A trainings center based on care and love
It’s nearly a year now that- under the umbrella of the Making More Health initiative – the first constructions for the MMH center have started. A training hall, a production room, first sanitation facilities are in place. Actually, together with the local communities and our local NGO partner we finalize the furnishing and prepare the…
A very special magazine…
Only a few days back Jane Waithera and her team from the Positive Exposure Organisation, located in Nairobi, have published their second magazine on people with albinism. In this Magazine you find stories of resilience and strength shared by persons with Albinism as they dealt with the challenges brought by the pandemic. You can download…
Our MMH house – a house of trust, inclusion and partnering
The MMH house – a place that brings more health and happiness to the people This week, at our Making More Health house the training sessions re-started. The Making More Health house was built last year in a town in Western Kenya to teach people with albinism and to give them a place to meet…
