As one disruptive leadership development element of our Making More Health’s Insights weeks we ask our leaders to prepare, pitch and to implement a training that has an impact for the people living close to the poverty line. This time we asked them to train farmers in Bungoma county on basic business skills. During the…
Category: Rural life
About farmers and life in the villages
Schools for poor are poorly managed – time to change
As one project of our work under the umbrella of the Making More Health Initiative, Boehringer Ingelheim and in close partnership with Ampath we invest in education for children from disadvantaged backgrounds in rural communities in Western Kenya. Schools for poor are managed poorly, schools for rich are managed in a rich way Investing in…
Beautiful waterfalls at Webuye, Kenya
Just a few impressions from a very impressive place in Western Kenya. Listen and see These waterfalls (Nabuyole falls) are close to Webuye, a rural town in Bungoma county that has definitely a lot of challenges and poverty, but also amazing landscapes and very helpful, smart people. There is not really tourism around, even this…
Eldoret – the first leadership week linking business thinking to social will start soon
Today, it was a huge preparation day for me and my local project managers and people I’m working with: finalizing logistics, field visits, checking if all is organized in the guest houses and the agenda details. In a few days here in Eldoret, more than 20 managers from different countries and functions will arrive and…
A day for people with albinism and without – because inclusion is key
On Friday this week we will launch Be in – Be out, a mobile website for people with albinism and all those being close to them. The launch day takes place in Nairobi, Kenya and is run together with the team from Positive Exposure. Be in – be you is an information source for people…
Sex for fish – HIV and abuse at the Victoria lake
WA-WA Kenya aims to stop ‘sex for fish’ practices by empowering women and teenage girls around lake Victoria. “Our main goal is to address social inequalities between men and women which is resulting in a lack of recognition of their rights, very restricted access to opportunities and to power: this results in difficulties to major economic…
Albinism in Kenya – people like you and me
What would you do if your child is born with Albinism? Would you abandon him or her? Read more about the difficult experiences of Yvonne Marando in our latest blog articles here. I have good friends who are albinos. And do you know what? They are just like you and me. A special hug to…
An interview in Kenya about schools, students and challenges
We arrive at one of the primary schools here in Bungoma county, Kenya. Many schools have very poor infrastructures and are in a poor status. In all the schools there are hundreds of children. The school we visit might be good at hosting 400 students. But the number of the students is growing every day:…
Visit at a dispensary
It’s in Bungoma county, close to Webuye where we stop to visit a dispensary and to discuss shortly with the doctor. Only a few minutes as she manages everything at her own and the number of patients waiting in front of the building is quite high. “Everyday”, she says, “I do at least 25 to…
Meeting a West Kenyan small farmer with passion – and referee by choice
It’s a warm day when I meet a farmer couple at their home. The farmer demonstrates with a lot of pride and energy his testing fields. He tries to find out out which kind of maize grows better with the continuously higher lack of water, how a mixed agriculture helps to avoid acid soil and…
Why it is important that women in Kenya learn fishing
Dried fish from the Victoria lakeI have met Cavin and Francis in Nairobi. Both of them had a rather challenging life when they grew up. Difficult family situations, death, poverty, frustrations… and both are appassionate for a big dream. And things changed: They have been together in an eight months social entrepreneurial program “kanthari” in…
Visiting a market in Bungoma county
I’m very impressed by the colorful market scenery here in Bungoma county in West Kenya: Farmers who buy and sell cattle, sometimes coming from remote places to a rural town with the hope to earn some money, sounds of all genres, thin handmade strings to take the animals along, women in colorful clothes sitting on…
Go Kenya, go future! 