Just a few weeks ago, the Teenage Mothers House in Webuye was only an idea — bricks, dreams, and determination. Today, it’s already taking shape: a safe space where young mothers can rebuild their lives, learn, and care for their children. This transformation is powered by the Bungoma Outreach group and the incredible generosity of…
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A Circle of Care: Building Inclusive Communities in Webuye, Kenya
In Webuye, Western Kenya, our partner NGO center GAASPP works with street boys, teenage mothers, people with albinism, and elderly people over 90 years old — creating a living example of inclusion, shared responsibility, and sustainable social change. The community model integrates care, learning, and empowerment in a way that connects generations and strengthens resilience:…
Working with girls means changing lives. Working with boys, too, means changing generations!
When we talk about reducing teenage pregnancy and building resilient communities, the focus often falls on girls. At SCN Kenya, we know this is only half the story. True, sustainable change happens when boys are part of the journey too. Boys as Part of the Solution Take Webuye, for example. Here, our NGO partner GAASPP…
Change starts with understanding the root causes and by building relationships of trust with vulnerable communities – key learnings during our 2nd leadership insights week
Regularly, we invite our colleagues from Boehringer Ingelheim to one week Making More Health insights weeks in Kenya. Why? Simply to make them experience what you can never realize and understand while sitting in your offices or reading articles and presentation slides. Experiencing and interacting with vulnerable communities is key! As human beings we tend…
We are on tour again…
It’s the 6th time now that our Boehringer Ingelheim colleagues from different departments and different sites around the world join the Making More Health insights week. It is a week full of great experiences, interactions with local people, NGOs, students, professors, governmental stakeholders, teenage mothers, people with albinism, farmers, healthcare professionals, bishops… it’s about listening…
Our Making More Health centers in Kenya are becoming number 1 to develop vulnerable communities
Our Making More Health center, GAASPP, started in 2020. Today, it is a pilot center for the whole region to support vulnerable communities in many aspects.
Working with youth communities in Kenya
If we want to make the world a better, a more sustainable one, we have to to start from where the people are and to understand their needs first. This means in community based countries as Kenya to understand the community structures, too! Community plays a central role in the Kenyan social fabric, influencing various…
System changer meeting (SCN) 2024 in Kenya – we have great news!
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…
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…
Making More Health activities in our centers in Webuye and Tongaren, Kenya to prevent teenage mothers and support children
During and after the Covid crises the number of teenage mothers in Western Kenya has increased significantly. That’s why we run a lot of prevention and awareness training sessions for girls and young teenage mothers in our two MMH centers in Webuye and Tongaren area in Bungoma county, and at our Solasa MMH center in…
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.
Go Kenya, go future! 