A few days back, we have launched a pilot project to make more drinking water available to our communities in our Making More Health project area in Bungoma county, Western Kenya. More than 6000 individuals living close to the poverty line in rural areas will benefit from it. How it works? Helioz, a social enterprise…
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Let’s have a drink together – or are you hesitant?
Above is the spring water well that is being used by over 300 household’s here in the surrounding of Webuye in Western Kenya. The people have been drawing stagnant water, and used it as drinking water. The consequences were often water with a high bacteria level right from the water source thus leading to diarrhea…
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…
COVID-19: stigma has become a critical issue in Africa – an animation that makes a difference!
Overwhelming and disjointed information about the novel COVID-19 has caused misconceptions and raised fear among people in the world, also in Africa. What was originally meant to be meaningful information has been misconstrued to mean that being infected with the virus automatically leads to a death sentence. With the outbreak of COVID-19, stigma has become…
Just imagine people from another planet come and promise to make your world a better one …
Just imagine people from another planet would come and “help” you with a lot of things and ideas. Things and ideas THEY think are needed and THEY steer strategically “to create a better life for you”. Would you like it and trust? Even if they promise you a so much better future? What does it…
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…
When rain takes it all…
Covid, poverty, floods – which is the most difficult one? In the middle of our hygiene activities project in Mukuru Slums in Nairobi, it’s not just the virus that creates a lot of challenges. It’s poverty, too. And it’s floods. Just imagine you live in the slums with a few things sitting in your small…
We care … impressions from the youth project in Mukuru slums
„We walked around the streets distributing liquid soap to the shops, hotels and small business traders that have installed hand washing points as we encouraged them to keep doing this. We were greeted with joy, smiles and appreciation as no other group had done such since the first case was announced by the Kenyan Government…
…and who cares about them?
Kenya, 10 June 2020. There are 2989 confirmed infections officially registered. The lockdown of the last weeks had many consequences: many informal jobs got lost. Lack of money, lack of means to protect themselves, more people suffering from hunger. Children are begging and who is not successful looks for food in the garbage places. Launch…
Imagine there is the virus crises, you share your home with bedbugs, cockroaches and fleas… and food is rare
In these times I struggle a lot when people tell me that this year there is not enough money to buy a new car or they have to cancel the weekend trip, that traveling is so limited, that hip concerts and street festivals cannot take place…. and that we loose so much money. Don’t get…
Join our international albinism day activities – because your support counts!
On 13 June is the international albinism day. Together, with our local NGO partners Positive Exposure Kenya and Golden Age Albinism Support Program (GAASP) we have started 2 years ago to support people with albinism in Kenya. With health trainings, but also supporting them to grow with income and general knowledge. And awareness campaigns in…
Call for testing at school in Mukuru slum
Together with the Mukuru Aganza film academy in Nairobi, and under the umbrella of the Makingmorehealth initiative we run a Covid19 awareness campaign to inform people about measurements they can take to protect themselves and for participating in free testing. For example with posters as the one shown above – targeting a lot of people…
Go Kenya, go future! 