Experiencing how people in informal settlements really live is key before engaging in projects. Supporting farmer communities in Western Kenya
Tag: health
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…
Health equity in informal settlements in Nairobi? A young woman shares about the gaps in healthcare and her way to become a nurse
Irene, a young women has grown up in Mukuru Slums, in Nairobi: A large area with hundreds of thousands of people living at and below the poverty line. Waste, informal settlements, illiteracy, teenage mothers and bad water conditions are just a few challenges… health equity is not existing. I have known Irene during a visit…
More Mental Well-being for young “acrobats” in Nairobi’s informal settlements
An outstanding, nearly cost- free, but very impactful and creative program for the mental well-being of children: acrobats lessons in Nairobi’s slum Mukuru Sinai. One of our 8 NGO partners, VICCO, runs many diverse projects to support youth and women in one of Kenya’s largest slum areas: from urban farming and nutrition to health and…
From cooking lessons to mental health – working with youth in slum areas
In the challenging environment of slum areas, where access to nutritious food is often limited, discussing food and nutrition becomes vital for the holistic development of children and teens. Like here in Mukuru Slums in Nairobi: “More than 1000 families living in Mukuru Slums have been impacted since we started the initiative ca. 18 months…
Our MMH school is growing
Three years back we have constructed new school buildings for 700 children living in poor families around Webuye. They had visited a semi governmental school with very poor and also dangerous classrooms. No windows, no doors, bad or no boards and too less desks and chairs. Rain has been a huge challenge – because of…
Coming back to a world where people have choices
I’m very grateful for the past two weeks. I had the opportunity to visit several local NGO partners in Kenya. I’m grateful for all the visits and warm welcomes, for a lot of new and deep insights. For seeing that under the umbrella of the Making More Health Initiative we proceed with our System Changer…
“What I have seen in Nairobi only in former times, has reached our farmers now” – Impressions from our farmers visit in Tongaren, Kenya
Together with a film team we visited recently our SCN partner organisation Core Heath and Wealth (CHW) in Tongaren, a very remote and rural area in Bungoma county. Organic farming fields which serve local, but also farmers from other locations and neighbor countries to learn about different farming solutions, a solar driven solar water system,…
An app for more women health in Kenya – a collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute
“Yesterday, we had a wonderful time with Clarissa,“ shares Vera, the leader of one of our partner NGOs (Core Health & Wealth Family) in Bungoma county, Kenya. Clarissa, an employee of the Frauenhofer institute in Germany builds – together with the Making More Health Team from Boehringer Ingelheim – an app with all basic knowledge…
More mental health for our farmers in Kenya
“On Tuesday we did our first mental health programme. The topic was about goal setting and how the farmers can contribute to mental wellness. These goals help us to face the future with anticipation and not apprehension. It’s was so exciting, people didn’t want us to conclude”, explains Vera Wanyonyi leading the Family part of…
Road safety and an ambulance car are key for health
In our project areas in Western Kenya we run a lot of health awareness projects with farmers and their families. However, besides specific health and hygiene education it is also about reducing risks that impact people’s life day by day – in the houses, at work and on the road. And what if there is…
A government delegation visits our MMH Gardens
Today, a government delegation visited our MMH Kibisi Gardens in our farmer communities in Bungoma county, where also one of our MMH centers is located. The delegation was led by the Deputy County Commissioner in charge of Tongaren subcounty. “We had over 15 chiefs in attendance and the new Member of County Assembly. We shared…
Go Kenya, go future! 