Two children with Albinism could receive today hats, sunscreen lotion and washing liquid soap. Because two of my friends helped with some money to make this happen. Thank you!! The children have been without lotion for 4 months as the family cannot afford. When we did the visit at the family’s house the children had…
Category: Rural life
About farmers and life in the villages
Raising awareness at schools about albinism
Chris, my local social worker visited schools in Bungoma county in Western Kenya. Here we run a lot of projects with farmers and people with albinism. Chris went also to the schools where our children with Albinism learn and had staff meetings and discussions with teachers on how to handle children with Albinism. Some basic…
Liquid soap for a better life made in our MMH house
Today our community in Webuye prepared for the first time liquid soap. In our community which consists of many people with Albinism (PwAs) and their relatives in that rural town in Western Kenya soap is not available and the means to buy a piece are not there at all. So, in our Making More Health…
Good news from our farmers and school project in Western Kenya
I got some news from our local social worker and our projects in Bungoma county, Western Kenya: “Today, together with the trainers of Boehringer Ingelheim’s Lastmile Team we did a field review on the farmers who participated in a training that was applied 3 weeks ago. It was quite amazing and farmers are very much…
Also we celebrated Christmas – for the first time!
This is our Making More Health house in Webuye, West Kenya where since a few weeks our community for people with albinism meets regularly for vocational trainings, for health awareness programs and just for staying together. A few days before Christmas our community decided that they wanted to celebrate Christmas together. here in the Making…
Our school grows in West Kenya and we engage. Because a good school needs more than just a good building
We are happy to see that the school construction which we have started under the Making More Health Initiative is going on. After the ground work the first walls are visible now. More than 700 students and teachers will be hosted here. Education needs a wealthier home, too In the meantime, we have started also…
Pictures from our School building in Kenya
After demolishing the old school building in Webuye, Western Kenya now the preparation for the new building have started. In three month the first building will be ready. Teachers and students as well as students are looking forward. And we, too.
Changing perceptions and more skills for PwAs – on health and farming
During a farmers’ training in West Kenya people discussed on the stigma and discrimination from People with albinism (PWAs) point of view. Changing perspectives is key Changing perspective helps to create more understanding for people who seems to be different. The more visible the differences are the more difficult it becomes to be seen as…
Great news for our Making More Health school in Bungoma – construction works for school in rural West Kenya have started
Today, I received the first pictures from our local partners: the construction works for the new school building which we plan under the Making More Health Initiative have started. The old school building needs to be destroyed. In a few days the first stone for the new building will be laid down. In February, the…
Safety trainings for schools in Kenya – that’s health, too!
The Making More Health safety book for schools and students in Kenya The safety book is our basic training material for teachers, students and parents in Kenya. The book contains topics such as how to ensure to make schools safer, eg that there are no strangers in the school yard, how to teach about safety…
Human rights starts on the ground – People with albinism meet farmers
It’s always on the ground, in the reality outside offices where change starts or not. When messages change ways of thinking, perceptions and, most of all, behaviors. When information and change goes beyond sectors and is not clear only to people who deal with it on a daily basis. When it reaches the ground. When…
A chair for life – thanks, colleagues!!! By
I met Molly in Homabay. A young woman with three children and a 27 years old husband who had an accident recently. With huge consequences. Paralyzed. Molly who needs to care for him. Molly who tries to earn some money with growing some small fish eggs. Still waiting that this business will start soon (…
Go Kenya, go future! 