Kicking out diabetes – under the umbrella of Making More Health we engage in the Langas slum in Eldoret, Kenya. MMH peers are educated to raise awareness about diabetes when soccer teams play. The number of non communicable diseases is raising everywhere in a very obvious and dramatic way. But knowledge and treatment, esp in…
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Peer Educators’ training starts in Eldoret to make more health happen in the slums
We got fantastic news today from Eldoret: The peer educators’ trainings in Langas, one of the largest slums in Kenya, have started! Solasa and we from the Making More Health team (www.makingmorehealth.com) have started to work together. What has happened so far? Fifteen peer educators (representing the 3 sub-counties of Uasin Gishu County) have met…
About suicides, screening and caring in Kenya
Today, we managed to screen police officers in Webuye’s police station and also some local people who were on the market. The screening focuses on diabetes and hypertension. One of the police officers said: “I really like and appreciate this screening. It’s the first time ever that someone started to think of such an exercise…
Go Kenya, go future! 