Tony Joy is a social entrepreneur and MMH fellow from Nigeria where she runs a very interesting and disruptive social enterprise, called Durian. It is important to her to create an environment to women and the rural youth that they do not migrate to the cities. She creates sustainable and green solutions – in a…
Category: Rural life
About farmers and life in the villages
Impact is not about measuring activities and projects, but what vulnerable communities make really out of it
Two years ago, Addis has started to come regularly to the Making More Health GAASPP center in Webuye, Kenya. This center offers a lot of skill training sessions around (animal) health and hygiene, but also basic digital and business skills. It’s a place where people learn, exchange, consult, produce and also enjoy staying together. Addis…
Where business meets social: Welcome to our MMH guesthouses – feel good, do good!
What if your next (global) meeting Recently, we have inaugurated the MMH guesthouses in Webuye, Westkenya – in the middle of traditional villages and African rural life. The guesthouses are a few steps away from our MMH center where – together with our local NGO partner GAASPP – we run a lot of training sessions…
Miguel Neiva, MMH fellow, joined our Insights week for managers in Kenya & shares about the win- win
Miguel Neiva is one of our Making More Health fellows. His own social enterprise, ColorAdd, is very successful and helps people with colorblindness. He trained also some of our communities on the effect of colorblindness and shared his successful business model. The awareness level among our local teachers about this topic was not there. Now,…
Our colleagues train communities in Webuye, Kenya, about unconscious bias and an unusual visit
More than 15 participants (colleagues from all over the world and also two Ashoka and MMH fellows) have participated in the first of two Making More Health Insights weeks in Webuye, Kenya. As a part of the experience that included many field visits to learn more about our programs with parents, farmers and teachers, marginalized…
When farmers form a choir it means a big step forward
This week – during our Making More Health Insights Week in Kenya – we visited also the Farmer cooperative Kibstar in Mbakalo ward, one of the cooperatives where we run – together with our local partner NGO Core Health & Wealth – a lot of programs and activities. Water purification and access support through an…
There was really nothing in 2019?
“Wasn’t there really nothing in 2019?”, I was asked several times during the first Leadership week day by my colleagues when we visited our Making More Health center in Webuye which is at a 5 minute distance from our MMH guesthouses. Indeed in 2019, we have just started our first projects together with our two…
Soon our Making More Health Leadership week in Kenya will start…
It’s the second time after 2019 that we conduct leadership weeks, so-called MMH Insights weeks, for our managers coming from many different countries. Today, our first group of colleagues will arrive and stay a full week with us in the newly Making More Health guesthouses. All in all in the next two weeks we will…
Putting together right solutions and partners to support community development
A visit from India at our Kenyan women self- help groups As many of you may know I work together with local NGO partners in India and Kenya to better the life of vulnerable communities. One essential part of this work is not just to invest in various projects and activities, but we invest also…
New activities started in the donkey land… a visit to farmers in Machakos county
Today, I went 150 km to the East of Nairobi to a part of Kenya, Machakos county, where the desert land starts and life for farmers is really difficult. We met there a community of farmers whom one of our local system changer network partners, Mukuru Angaza, has started new projects with – also with…
Digital knowledge means enabling people to empower themselves! Thanks for a great feedback!
Engagement for vulnerable communities can be done in many different ways. Besides activities and projects in health and hygiene, infrastructure set up and income generation as well as education there is one very important area which often is neglected: digital expertise just because when hunger, poverty and other basics are so obvious, it does not…
When cultural exchange makes a difference
I have worked now for several years with vulnerable communities in India and Kenya. Several activities and projects have taken place to make the life of the people a better one: training sessions on health and hygiene, income generating activities, water projects, digital training sessions, set up of infrastructure, mental health training sessions, and last,…
Go Kenya, go future! 