In WEBUYE, Kenya, close to our MMH house where every day health and hygiene training sessions, but also income generating activities take place and especially families with albinism and elderly come together, we are building also some guest houses. These guest houses will serve people with albinism coming from an outreach of over 400 km…
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Why HOPE for the young generation in the slums makes a difference!
If there is hope, the sky is the limit! Francis Gikufu, a social entrepreneur, has grown up himself in the slums of Nairobi. After some very difficult years as a young adoloscent he got support and learned on how to make real impact happen – for himself first and from there he started to engage…
Why managers need exposure on the ground and what is the learning for a NGO?
There are a lot of presumptions when managers talk about emerging countries and how it might look on the ground. Often the knowledge is a learned one only – through facts, figures or third parties who do research. But is this enough to really understand what is needed, what can create a benefit and maybe…
Managers on tour: loosing control, gaining disruptive insights, creating shared value! Join us!
The Insights weeks, started in 2015 under the umbrella of the Making More Health Initiative, are making a difference for the participants and for society. These are leadership & disruptive innovation driven weeks with a Shared Value! Now opening up to managers and decision makers from your companies! Because we can change the world for…
There is magic when we put dots together and connect people
After a very successful leadership week with more than 20 managers in Bungoma county in Kenya, after launching very concrete projects on the ground with farmers, teachers and with the buy in also from the governmental site, after a first income generation training and a huge youth venture program launch at Nairobi and a concrete…
How a leadership week can impact smallholder farmers‘ life
As one disruptive leadership development element of our Making More Health’s Insights weeks we ask our leaders to prepare, pitch and to implement a training that has an impact for the people living close to the poverty line. This time we asked them to train farmers in Bungoma county on basic business skills. During the…
Social entrepreneurial Leadershipweek in rural Kenya has started
More than twenty managers from different countries and different functions have come to Kenya to participate in a very disruptive leadership week under the umbrella of the Making more Health initiative from Boehringer Ingelheim in close collaboration with our partner Ampath*. While these leadership weeks have been done for more than four years already in…
Eldoret – the first leadership week linking business thinking to social will start soon
Today, it was a huge preparation day for me and my local project managers and people I’m working with: finalizing logistics, field visits, checking if all is organized in the guest houses and the agenda details. In a few days here in Eldoret, more than 20 managers from different countries and functions will arrive and…
Go Kenya, go future! 