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…
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Co-creating with local changemakers – more hygiene for the slums in Nairobi
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…
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…
More Urban farming and mental health in Nairobi’s slums
„My names are Dedan, Shakur, and many others. I got them from the street. I am a second born of 4 raised by a single mother. Survived in the street of Nairobi for 11yrs. With all the things that you live there: hunger, abuse of drugs, crime, indignity. Later I was rescued and taken to…
MMH Youth event on women hygiene
28.09.2020 – Girls in the slums have huge challenges due to the lack of sanitary towels. Also in Langas slum , the 2nd biggest slum in Kenya, the problem was recently highlighted in the media. As part of our health activities in our project areas in Eldoret and Bungoma county, Making More Health has donated…
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…
