In April, our Solasa Bakery opened its doors right at the edge of the Eldoret slums — a strategic location, visible from the main road and easily accessible for the community. Just a few weeks later, it’s clear: the concept works. The bakery is already profitable — earning six to eight times more than what…
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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.
How basic business skills and a small micro credit make a difference in life
While visiting many farmer women and men, selfhelp groups and generally people in informal settlements in the cities who live close or even below the poverty line I’m confronted often with the same challenges: No business skills, no self- confidence and no small investment money. How we could overcome:
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…
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…
A parents center in the slums – more care and health for children and mothers…
It’s the second parents club which has been added within a few months to our Making More Health activities and centers in Western Kenya. This was possible through the very active and appassionate support of one of our social entrepreneurs in our network and MMH fellow Eszter Harsyani. She and her team have come several…
Kenyans teach Kenyans – the beauty of working in networks
“I am so happy to have this week’s mentorship training with Elizabeth and her team at the MMH center in Eldoret. Today it’s the second day, I am humbled of how deep the training is turning to be…I formed already four groups of six members each here, they’ve identified a problem that they will work…
Inauguration of the 2nd MMH Center in Western Kenya
At the beginning of October 2022, we inaugurated our 2nd Making More Health House in Western Kenya, this time in Eldoret in the Langas slum. The inauguration started with a procession throughout the slum, with a lot of singing and dancing. At the MMH Solasa center some women gave us a nice first welcome, followed…
How Covid impacts the youth in the slums
The situation in the slums is very difficult – even more in Covid times. As one of our local NGO partners reports from Langas, Eldoret in Kenya: ” … Cases of indiscipline, drugs and substances abuse have been on the rise in the slums in the past months. Even amongst school children the negative influce…
Solasa and Making More Health reach out to elderly in the slums
Our local partner Solasa NGO is located in the 2nd biggest slum in Kenya, called Langas in Eldoret. Together, we have engaged a lot to help the most needy people during the last weeks when Covid 19 has led to a complete lockdown even in the slums. In the past we have been working together…
Listen to Voices from the slums in Eldoret
In the past months, together with our local NGO partner SOLASA we from Making More Health have supported people living in the slums of Langas in Eldoret, Kenya. The COVID crises and lockdown has taken away a lot of informal jobs and has led to a high uncertainty among the population. People stay without any…
A health and meeting center for women in the slums in Eldoret
Langas is the second biggest slum area in Kenya. Here in Eldoret, together with our NGO partner Solwodi/Solasa we build a Health and Meeting center for women and children. In a few months the old small houses where they meet and are trained at the moment cannot be used any more. We, under the umbrella…
Go Kenya, go future! 