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…
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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…
Life saving drinking water & hygiene – Training sessions for more than 6000 farmers and families
After being trained by our Social entrepreneurial partner Helioz our three local social workers, Chris, Cleo and Pauline have started a bundle of trainings of drinking water disinfection with our communities in Webuye, Western Kenya. The quality of drinking water is a huge issue in our project area. The way on how water is taken…
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…
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…
When people in need empower each other and share learnings – that’s what we call impact!
“We visited Positive Exposure today, donated masks. The masks will be shared to Jane’s team. We also held a training session taking her through the process of making Liquid Soap. She was exited as, just like the women and youths from Mukuru Slums, who have already benefited with this training, And are now earning a…
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…
Drinking water issues in Homabay – water purifiers urgently needed
The situation of the people in Homabay who have lost their homes due to the floods of the past weeks is critical. Willis, a local climate change ambassador explains how the situation looks at the moment. Just watch this Video. With the donations of some employees we could provide some support for clean drinking water….
Floods, hunger, displacements eclipse COVID19
(For German Version scroll down) In Kenya, the situation is very critical. Not just because of COVID19 and the high infection rate that might not even be measurable due to a lack of testing. Not just because of missing masks and protection measurements, not because of missing hospital structures. But also because of a huge…
