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….
Category: Rural life
About farmers and life in the villages
Water is life – our water project in Tongaren, Bungoma county, Kenya
Last year (2022) , one of our Making More Health (MMH) fellows, Farmer Tantoh from Cameroon, trained our farmers in Webuye and Tongaren online on water harvesting, storage and purification. Some weeks later he visited Tongaren in Bungoma county and run an interview with a farmer and local authority about dam project which was set…
Starting the week with two news of hope
1. Children plan and harvest in our MMH garden in Mukuru Slums We got some nice pictures from the MMH urban farming garden in Mukuru Slums in Nairobi where children actively are involved and learn how to grow plants: “We engage children in planting as they prepare to go back to school.. we managed to…
Our Cultural Exchange Club is a real highlight for many community members
“They (our community members) are very excited learning about other cultures and will want to share their experience in the next session…we shall do an interview with them on a variety of topics…it very nice hearing their wealth of experience..”, this is how one of our NGO partners has shared feedback on today’s cultural exchange…
Together we will win! Vulnerable communities of our system changer network take the initiative to change their lives themselves
Only if vulnerable communities own skills, different ways of doing and start to make it happen, real impact and change happens. Trust, innovation in how we do what we do, System change, networks and change engineering is key to make this happen.
Our MMH school is growing
Three years back we have constructed new school buildings for 700 children living in poor families around Webuye. They had visited a semi governmental school with very poor and also dangerous classrooms. No windows, no doors, bad or no boards and too less desks and chairs. Rain has been a huge challenge – because of…
About numbers. About values. About impact
Wow, that’s a statement. You might like it or not. You might say yes, but… anyhow, I would be interested to hear from you what you think about it: As Donna Meadows, a very famous system thinker, wrote in one of her books:” Our culture, obsessed with numbers, has given us the idea that what…
Coming back to a world where people have choices
I’m very grateful for the past two weeks. I had the opportunity to visit several local NGO partners in Kenya. I’m grateful for all the visits and warm welcomes, for a lot of new and deep insights. For seeing that under the umbrella of the Making More Health Initiative we proceed with our System Changer…
He4She and She4he – no longer prostitution and HIV spreading at Lake Victoria
1st February 2023 – Today, we visited selfhelp groups at Lake Victoria, Kenya. Besides running several centers together with local NGOs in Bungoma county and Eldoret, we are active also in several communities in Homabay county together with our local partner Wa-Wa, under the umbrella of the Making More Health Initiative. HIV infections are widely…
“What I have seen in Nairobi only in former times, has reached our farmers now” – Impressions from our farmers visit in Tongaren, Kenya
Together with a film team we visited recently our SCN partner organisation Core Heath and Wealth (CHW) in Tongaren, a very remote and rural area in Bungoma county. Organic farming fields which serve local, but also farmers from other locations and neighbor countries to learn about different farming solutions, a solar driven solar water system,…
There is a lot of hope now – Our system changer network starts into the 2nd phase
If you build a house you need more than materials, the ground and builders. You have to put things together in a certain sequence, you need to connect them. The craftsmen have to come in at the right time and place – and in a specific order. You need a good plan on how the…
An app for more women health in Kenya – a collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute
“Yesterday, we had a wonderful time with Clarissa,“ shares Vera, the leader of one of our partner NGOs (Core Health & Wealth Family) in Bungoma county, Kenya. Clarissa, an employee of the Frauenhofer institute in Germany builds – together with the Making More Health Team from Boehringer Ingelheim – an app with all basic knowledge…
Go Kenya, go future! 