Together, we can make more health happen – also in the slums in Nairobi. Students from Nairobi took part in one of our six month competitions a few months ago. In the meantime they have founded their own social organization (Uhai365) and do educational work on hygiene in schools in the slums. Then we brought…
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Students should not sit in the mud … huge impact with small solutions!
Waaau! The school tent is ready. The pupils are happy and even for the school headteacher it is a big step forward. “What a great idea and salvation done to this needy pupils in this school! At least we can now teach in a classroom even though not permanent, but we are now covered with…
More schools get involved in our awareness programs about albinism and health
Today, our local GAASPP – MMH team visited one of the schools in the neighborhood that host our community children with Albinism together with our children who have vision problems. “We taught them on hygiene, enhanced advocacy and trained the staff on how to handle children with Albinism,” explains Chrisantus our local project manager. “These…
Our MMH house – a house of trust, inclusion and partnering
The MMH house – a place that brings more health and happiness to the people This week, at our Making More Health house the training sessions re-started. The Making More Health house was built last year in a town in Western Kenya to teach people with albinism and to give them a place to meet…
Sex for pads and women health in Covid times
The challenges to buy hygiene pads, growth of infections, raising prices for daily items…Cavin Odera, leader of the Wa-Wa organisation, reports about the situation of women health of women living close to the poverty line at Lake Victoria, Kenya. Want to know more? Have a look at this video: Video: The situation for women close…
When good things start to spread outside our own networks and affects other communities … then impact starts
The NGO V.I.C.C.O in Mukuru slums is one of the NGOs that stays in the neighborhood of one of our official partner organizations and while knowing about the activities they started to connect. This is fantastic – because together we can make even more impact happen. Why not sharing materials to all where possible and…
A great day – an important school inauguration in Bungoma county
A few days back a great event has taken place: the inauguration of the school which we have built under the umbrella of Making More Health in Bungoma county, Western Kenya. The school for more than 750 students was in a very poor and even dangerous status when our local project partner and myself visited…
A training with huge impact – albinism in Kenya
Last week we conducted our 3 days of Albinism Awareness training in Webuye. With the help of our partners Golden Age Albinism Support group and Positive Exposure we from Making More Health educated county officials, police officers and other community opinion shapers on the fir treatment of Person with Albinism. With the knowledge and resource…
Our MMH house in Webuye – first constructions are done !
All started last November when we rented a small house to run the first training sessions on health and income generation. In the Covid crises it was A central place to share information on hygiene and to produce soap more than 130 families and people with albinism joined. And the number of interested people to…
Women taboos and a solution with a win win effect
The hygiene situation to manage well menstruating has never been good for girls and women living close to the poverty line. But now – with the Covid crises- the challenges get even worse. Often, the financial means are simply not there to buy menstruation pads or similar women hygiene articles. Still today in many areas…
Masks and beans for the poor – difficult situation in the slums
In Mukuru slums , Nairobi, the situation is really bad. “Children are at the verge of dying due to hunger. Three children died in the neighborhood,” says Francis, our local partner and social entrepreneur who in the past weeks had already organized a lot of soap making and mask production as part of our Making…
Training on Clean Water Initiative at Webuye started
The clean water initiative that we have launched a few days back has now been rolled out to our farmers and people with albinism community in Webuye. Impressions from the first training In our Making More Health house some of our future Community trainers (volunteers from the communities itself) learn about the usage of the…