After first very successful training program some months back, our local partner organisation, WA-WA has conducted again a very special event for young people living in Homabay and surrounding in Western Kenya. In the area at Lake Victoria the rate of poverty and HIV infection is high. Young women sell themselves to get some fish,…
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How jeans can help to grow plants in slum areas
Jeans are more than just a piece of trousers. Filled with soil and seeds it becomes an organic container to produce healthy vegetables. But it’s also many other containers that find a second way of usage while serving to grow plants. Find out more on this topic and how – in very frugal ways –…
When marginalized people become teachers….so proud of our people with albinism community!
It’s joy and total happiness in the community in our Making More Health house where our people with Albinism take lead and teach other community groups on how to enhance hygiene and sanitation in their homes. Two years back most of them lived in very poor surroundings, felt threatened and had only a few opportunities…
He4Her – She4Him (Part 2): the outcome
HOW DOES MEN’S HEALTH CONNECT TO WOMEN’S HEALTH. Outcome of our pilot training sessions. As report in part 1 we have launched a pilot training program in Homabay, Kenya on women’s and Men’s health. A good men’s health and women’s health are possible only if both genders health is equally considered and men care about…
He4Her and She4Him – How Men’s and Women’s Health are interlinked (part 1)
How men’s health invluence women’s health and why we need to invest in both with awareness trainings and group discussions
Fighting water scarcity in Bungoma County, Kenya with a community-based approach
Water scarcity is often treated as underrated issue in a world where half of the population is predicted to face unstable access to clean water sources by as early as 2025. While safe water is not only essential for drinking and aspects of basic hygiene, it is also indispensable for sanitation and disease prevention. Therefore,…
A goat that matters – a gift that cares
Recently, when a colleague left the company my colleagues handed over a very special gift – not to her personally, but dedicated to her: a goat for our community with people with albinism in Webuye. The excitement in our local community was very big. It was the first goat among some chicken that will help…
Artemisia packing in the Making More Health house and first planting result
Recently, in the Making More Health house and in 4 more locations in Western Kenya our Artemisia farming training has started. Some of the of trained people from our albinism communities, but also other smallholder farmers have already started and the first results are visible. the Artemisia plants are fragile and continuous care is needed….
World Malaria Day in Webuye: making a difference to our communities
A few days back in our MMH community center in Webuye, Kenya we celebrated World Malaria Day. “In 2019, the Kenya national malaria incidence was reported at 125.92 cases per thousand population. In counties that make up the Lake Endemic Region in western Kenya, however, the incidences reported were significantly higher than the national average….
A trainings day at our MMH house in Kenya
While in 2020 the MMH center was set up, the buildings were constructed and first training sessions on health took place, now the activities have grown – in numbers and topics. Many people join for the training sessions, even living in neighborhood counties. Training sessions on health topics and safety, special care for people with…
Women health kits are on the road
Some weeks ago we ran a webinar where we shared information about our local projects on women health. Our local NGO partners and social entrepreneurs explained how the situation is getting even more difficult for women as the accessibility to hygiene pads for many of them is not given (any more). The situation has always…
Two chicken for a better life
Just imagine you or your children are people with albinism. A genetic condition that makes life difficult, especially in Africa. Not so much, because if the condition itself, but mostly because of superstition, misbeliefs, exclusion in schools and later on often no jobs – poverty among families with people with albinism is widely spread…with all…
Go Kenya, go future! 