Diversity helps us, passion for humanity leads us! We belief that the impact of the past cannot be the impact of the future. That’s why we take new ways! We are on our fourth year now. The System changer network was launched in January 2022. In the first year (2021), In 2022, we officially launched…
Category: Urban life
Life in the cities
Our SCN Kenya meeting 2024 started
Webuye, Kenya: yesterday evening (23 Jan 2024) we started for the third time our annual System Changer Network (SCN) Kenya meeting – a 3 days meeting where the nine NGOs from Central and Western Kenya who form the SCN Kenya exchange, learn and plan together how develop communities who live at the poverty line in…
How karate lessons and self help groups create a long lasting change in underserved communities
A woman in Eldoret’s Langas area shares about changes since she is part of a Making More Health self-help group.
Impressions and voices from a visit to our latest SCN Kenya member in Mukuru slums, Nairobi
Yesterday, together with a colleague and some supporters from India and UK we visited VICCO, a young social and social entrepreneurial organisation in the middle of Mukuru slums in Nairobi. Shakur, the leader of VICCO. And his team are supported by the Making More Health initiative from Boehringer Ingelheim. Recently he joined also our national…
Do you know already our MMH cereals shop?
In Nairobi’s Mukuru slum we have established a few months ago a Making More Health cereals shop. Our local Partner organization V.I.C.C.O works here on a daily basis with women and children living at or even under the poverty line. The MMH shop is supporting 100 young mothers with nutrition for children below 3 years….
Child safety – an uncovered topic in Kenya. Soon we start a pilot project to change safety awareness
Children safety and safety prevention for children is still a very neglected and uncovered topic for Kenyan’s children. Trafficking, children that disappear – the number of missed children is high. Many of them are not even registered officially. In case of missing a child it is nearly impossible to find any trace… With a new program that we run together with the organization „ missing Child Kenya“ and the county police department we now want to raise more safety awareness – for children and parents.
Voices from our Making More Health Insights weeks in Kenya
In November 2023, fourty colleagues from Boehringer Ingelheim worldwide have participated in the Making More Health Insights weeks in Kenya. Here in Kenya, we run a lot of different activities in eight locations and have built exchange structures among the locations and local partner organizations so that the need of vulnerable communities can be covered…
Impact? That’s when victims have a chance to become heroes!
Recently, I met Elizabeth in her shop at the front of the Making More Health center in Webuye, Kenya. Elizabeth is a woman with albinism. Many years she – as many other people with albinism- she lived in extreme poverty, often discriminated and victim of crime. When she joined our center in 2021 her life changed from victim to heroe.
Tree planting day all over Kenya – it is an honor to support this initiative!
Kenyans have been given a special holiday to plant 100 million trees in 2023 as part of the government’s goal to plant 15 billion trees in 10 years. With our System changer network we have supported this initiative in many locations.
Onsite experiences in Making More Health projects – volunteering in vulnerable communities in Kenya
Experiencing how people in informal settlements really live is key before engaging in projects. Supporting farmer communities in Western Kenya
Great news from our System changer network partner TENDO – first 3 hygiene products made by underserved community members in Mukuru slums are national wide certified!
During my visit a few days back in Mukuru slums at our NGO partner TENDO (let by our Making More Health fellow Sam Agutu) we had a great moment of joy together: we could celebrate the full certification of the first three hygiene products – a TENDO shampoo, a TENDO multipurpose detergent and a TENDO…
Simple Knitting sessions can make a huge difference on your project plans and the final impact – listen and build trust first if you work with underserved communities
Many NGOs, but also governments and many companies invest in social and social entrepreneurial projects. Around the globe. Also in Africa, in informal settlements, in farming, in education. Digital platforms, health insurances, tree planting and water projects, women health projects of various kinds … all good. But how much time do we reallly invest to…
Go Kenya, go future! 