Our System Changer Network partner Solasa in Eldoret, Kenya had a very special gift for Valentine’s Day:They met with women prisoners and donated a pad or a dipper for children born in prison. As the team said: “We are looking to sharing love and inspiring hope for these women and children in the smallest ways…any…
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System changer meeting (SCN) 2024 in Kenya – we have great news!
Diversity helps us, passion for humanity leads us! We belief that the impact of the past cannot be the impact of the future. That’s why we take new ways! We are on our fourth year now. The System changer network was launched in January 2022. In the first year (2021), In 2022, we officially launched…
Do you know already our MMH cereals shop?
In Nairobi’s Mukuru slum we have established a few months ago a Making More Health cereals shop. Our local Partner organization V.I.C.C.O works here on a daily basis with women and children living at or even under the poverty line. The MMH shop is supporting 100 young mothers with nutrition for children below 3 years….
Child safety – an uncovered topic in Kenya. Soon we start a pilot project to change safety awareness
Children safety and safety prevention for children is still a very neglected and uncovered topic for Kenyan’s children. Trafficking, children that disappear – the number of missed children is high. Many of them are not even registered officially. In case of missing a child it is nearly impossible to find any trace… With a new program that we run together with the organization „ missing Child Kenya“ and the county police department we now want to raise more safety awareness – for children and parents.
How basic business skills and a small micro credit make a difference in life
While visiting many farmer women and men, selfhelp groups and generally people in informal settlements in the cities who live close or even below the poverty line I’m confronted often with the same challenges: No business skills, no self- confidence and no small investment money. How we could overcome:
Making More Health activities in our centers in Webuye and Tongaren, Kenya to prevent teenage mothers and support children
During and after the Covid crises the number of teenage mothers in Western Kenya has increased significantly. That’s why we run a lot of prevention and awareness training sessions for girls and young teenage mothers in our two MMH centers in Webuye and Tongaren area in Bungoma county, and at our Solasa MMH center in…
Voices from our Making More Health Insights weeks in Kenya
In November 2023, fourty colleagues from Boehringer Ingelheim worldwide have participated in the Making More Health Insights weeks in Kenya. Here in Kenya, we run a lot of different activities in eight locations and have built exchange structures among the locations and local partner organizations so that the need of vulnerable communities can be covered…
Tree planting day all over Kenya – it is an honor to support this initiative!
Kenyans have been given a special holiday to plant 100 million trees in 2023 as part of the government’s goal to plant 15 billion trees in 10 years. With our System changer network we have supported this initiative in many locations.
A day to remember: What happened at 4 October?
The center at Lake Victoria follows the concept of holistic and innovative solutions and programs for vulnerable communities while bringing constantly innovation into it through the systemic approach and the System Changer Network Kenya (SCNKenya).
Onsite experiences in Making More Health projects – volunteering in vulnerable communities in Kenya
Experiencing how people in informal settlements really live is key before engaging in projects. Supporting farmer communities in Western Kenya
Creating impact with and for students as an element of systemic change in Western Kenya
the Making More Health Venture4Change program is an essential “ puzzle piece” contributing to our MMH centers and the system change in underserved communities in Kenya.
After 4 years our first MMH center in Kenya becomes financially self-sustainable – a landing place for many solutions and solution makers who look for sustainable investments and impact
Only if many solutions come together in one place a real empowerment, a real change in people’s life is possible. The MMH community center are points where good social enterpreneurial solutions and solutions from other organizations and players “land”.
Go Kenya, go future! 