We are proud about Alive 365. Alive 365 is a group of Kenyan students who have participated in our Making More Health venture4change program a few months back in Nairobi have developed a game to bring more hygiene to children in the slums. And successfully implemented. In reality, not on paper only. A decisive moment…
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Two worlds – same planet
That’s our world – We hope that restaurants can re-open soon, that the days with work and children at home will end soon. We hope that the economic loss will not be too big and our standards will not change. And that our holidays will be possible – what if not? But it will get…
The rainy season makes it even more challenging
It’s rainy season in Kenya. A lot of mud and humidity- especially in the rural areas. Many people are sick. It’s high season for cough and cold as well as other infectious diseases. The situation has never been good. With the Corona virus spreading around the situation is dramatic. Huge challenges for elderly and differently…
The story of Francis, a social entrepreneur grown up in the slums of Nairobi, – how he fights COVID 19 and how we work together
Francis Gikufu is one of our Making More Health partners in Nairobi. He is a social entrepreneur, one of those who experienced himself – right from the frog perspective- how it feels to be a slum child… and who today brings change to the people, especially the youth living in Mukuru slums… Francis Gikufu is…
Osha mikono yako – Covid -19 Awareness song to inform poor communities
Getting the right messages on how to behave in time of COVID- 19 – in a simple and timely way – to people living in poverty is not easy. The official news channels, the public information does not always work well. Low education, superstition and wrong beliefs as well as low access to information on…
We should never take anything for granted – creating impact means more than distributing masks!
“We thought every woman was aware about where and how to put on masks, we were wrong, she confidently put it on to cover her eyes”, tells our local social entrepreneurial partner from WAWA NGO in Kenya. In the last days – due to the infection growth of COVID-19 – there is a high need…
The winners of our Making More Health venture4change challenge in Nairobi scale up and apply at United Nations contest
It started a year back when we launched the first Venture4change challenge and asked students in a 6 months challenge to develop and implement an idea on how to bring more hygiene into the slums. during the course the students learned about social entrepreneurial approaches and met successful social enterprises, but also left the classroom…
Covid19 – does not create new, but escalates numerous problems in the slums of Nairobi
Francis Gikufu, a Social entrepreneur who cares about young people in the Mukuru slum in Nairobi where he also lives himself, explains about the daily challenges people in the slums have to overcome right now: Fears, growing prices, the lack of food and failing support. And wrong assumptions by the people who never understood life…
If you care for us we have a little of hope to survive
“I had to make some stands for mounting the vessels. I educate them about personal hygiene and handwashing procedures as well as other ways of preventing the covid.19. I told them about the need for safety and keeping distance.” In our Making More Health communities – farmer cooperatives, villages and neighbors, especially the elderly- we…
Is this soap eatable? Dying from Covid 19 or from hunger?
People will not die from COVID 19 but die from hunger – can you help? Please read then! The situation is very critical. And it gets worse every day. In Webuye, a rural town in Western Kenya and in the surrounding many people have no access to food anymore. No jobs, no money, the prices…
Our school – a hygiene hub in crisis times
In the last months under the umbrella of Making More Health we have finalized the first building block for a school in Bungoma county. The inauguration was planned for end of March. But now this has been postponed. At school 750 students and their families around benefit from the new infrastructure which includes also hygienic…
In these times giving a little bit of safety to the elderly makes a huge difference – thanks to my colleagues!
In crises times the most vulnerable human beings often suffer even more than others. So do also the elderly in our project area in Kenya. No one has thought to inform them, to give them specific device and care on how to protect themselves from Covid-19! That’s why it is important to involve them in…
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