Yesterday, I spent just 15 minutes in a rural health facility in Western Kenya — and those minutes spoke louder than any report. A young girl had a severely infected toe. Her nail had to be removed. No painkiller. Not before, not after. The doctor did his best — with almost nothing to work with….
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series #2: Inclusive Innovation at Lake Victoria: A Business Case for Health, Livelihoods & Sustainable Impact
Series #2: Beyond tech: What can a fish cage teach us about inclusive growth and business sustainability? At Lake Victoria in Kenya, our System Changer Network partner Wa-Wa Kenya is advancing a transformative model that connects aquaculture, women’s empowerment, and healthcare access—with valuable lessons for business leaders worldwide. In partnership with Rio Fish Farm, Wa-Wa…
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…
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.
Impressions and voices from a visit to our latest SCN Kenya member in Mukuru slums, Nairobi
Yesterday, together with a colleague and some supporters from India and UK we visited VICCO, a young social and social entrepreneurial organisation in the middle of Mukuru slums in Nairobi. Shakur, the leader of VICCO. And his team are supported by the Making More Health initiative from Boehringer Ingelheim. Recently he joined also our national…
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…
First Aid trainings spread in our communities in Kenya
Our Making More Health Farmer Cooperatives in Western Kenya comprise ca 12000 farmers and their families. In average 8 people are part of each household. That’ about 100 000 people. The need for basic health and health prevention is very high. That’s why some months back one of our Boehringer employees, being a healthcare professional…
Spreading soap making in needy communities – impact making that moves
Francis, who has grown up in Mukuru slums in Nairobi himself, and runs today his own NGO is one of our partner organizations in our system changer network in Kenya. Some months ago, he – together with other NGO leaders and some of our community volunteers in various locations over Kenya – has been trained…
With employee donations our third MMH center starts to “live”
How our Making More Health center in Kenya developed so far We have opened our first Making More Health center in Webuye in 2020 to support people with albinism and elderly in Western Kenya and the second center in 2021 in Eldoret to support women and families in Langas slums. In both centers a lot…
When children teach parents about urban farming
In Mukuru Slums children of poor families come regularly to a children shelter that one of our local partners has set up. There they get a cup of porridge, can do some studies, relax and stay together. Here they learn also a lot about hygiene and health. Some of the children engage also in the…
Farmer women in our project area in Bungoma county- on the way to change their life for better
Together, with our local NGO partner Core Health and Wealth (CHW) Family, in the past year we had started to run health and hygiene training sessions, but also trained income generating skills. “The women are learning new agricultural practices to improve the health of their households and also to address food security. The women are…
How the MMH house impacts the people with albinism – the local governmental administrator explains. Kenya, 2021.
Today, the local governmental administrator visited the Making More Health house in Webuye, Western Kenya. He has visited the house since the constructions in 2019 and has observed many changes in the community of people living with albinism. Listen to what he explains – video However, there is still a lot to in the house…
Go Kenya, go future! 