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,…
Tag: Bungoma
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…
Investing in networking and relationships makes a visible difference: An Indian – Kenyan exchange visit (part 2)
During the past days our two local Indian MMH partners Selvaraj and Shibu from KKID (an Indian NGO partner) have had a lot of exchange and networking opportunities with many community members, NGO leaders, social entrepreneurs, teachers and other local stakeholders in our MMH locations in Kenya – from Machakos county to Uasin Gishu county…
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…
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…
Step by step creating a better life – additional income sources for our farmer men and women
September 2022: The farmer men and women in the kibisi cooperative in West Kenya have started two years ago to learn about various income generating activities, such as dying, carpet making, tailoring. These activities are executed in addition to the field work. The outcome of the farming is not sufficient. This has many reasons: too…
A tower, a solar pump and Paul, the special backpack – Kibisi clean water project in Kenya inaugurated
“This lady was hesitant about ever drinking water from the Kibisi dam because it was dirty and contaminated. She said it smelled bad also. So when she came to the dam one of her neighbours gave her some purified water to drink teasingly saying it was from Kibisi dam. At first she refused because the…
With employee donations our third MMH center starts to “live”
How our Making More Health center in Kenya developed so far We have opened our first Making More Health center in Webuye in 2020 to support people with albinism and elderly in Western Kenya and the second center in 2021 in Eldoret to support women and families in Langas slums. In both centers a lot…
Turning Flies into Food: Empowering Farmers with Innovation
Did you know that black soldier flies can transform farming? These incredible insects help produce organic feed for poultry and fish—and even create natural fertilizer. It’s a game-changer for smallholder farmers who often struggle to afford animal feed. Meet Tobi Adgebite, a passionate social entrepreneur from Nigeria and founder of Entojutu. After an inspiring year…
Linking up social enterprises and NGO partners to help girls to stay at school
In the past years the situation of needy communities has changed for the worse: also in Western Kenya, in the rural communities where we are active with our Making More Health initiative, the level of poverty grows, mental health issues have increased due to lockdowns and a general loss of hope has hit the population….
A water tower that matters
“I cannot even remember that anyone has come and helped us with such kind of infrastructures here”, said one of the farmers when the big water tower elements arrived at the dam, a large source of natural water in the middle of Bungoma county. “This water tower will help a lot our families to get…
Go Kenya, go future! 