Regularly, we invite our colleagues from Boehringer Ingelheim to one week Making More Health insights weeks in Kenya. Why? Simply to make them experience what you can never realize and understand while sitting in your offices or reading articles and presentation slides. Experiencing and interacting with vulnerable communities is key! As human beings we tend…
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How karate lessons and self help groups create a long lasting change in underserved communities
A woman in Eldoret’s Langas area shares about changes since she is part of a Making More Health self-help group.
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…
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
The MMH Basket of Love and dignity as driver of sustainable impact
The “MMH Basket of Love” is an initiative that helps the poorest with food. The very particular element in it is that the food is produced at our MMH farms by the local farmer cooperative members. Farmers who themselves struggled in the past to survive… “Especially in these months of June and July here in…
News from our system changer network in Kenya
A lot of things are going on in our system changer network in Kenya where eight NGOs are connected and exchange skills: At the school in our MMH Solasa campus we celebrate the day of African Child in Uasin Gishu county in Eldoret. At the Core Health and Wealth NGO in Bungoma County the first👆🏾👆🏾products…
Starting the week with two news of hope
1. Children plan and harvest in our MMH garden in Mukuru Slums We got some nice pictures from the MMH urban farming garden in Mukuru Slums in Nairobi where children actively are involved and learn how to grow plants: “We engage children in planting as they prepare to go back to school.. we managed to…
Putting together right solutions and partners to support community development
A visit from India at our Kenyan women self- help groups As many of you may know I work together with local NGO partners in India and Kenya to better the life of vulnerable communities. One essential part of this work is not just to invest in various projects and activities, but we invest also…
With employee donations our third MMH center starts to “live”
How our Making More Health center in Kenya developed so far We have opened our first Making More Health center in Webuye in 2020 to support people with albinism and elderly in Western Kenya and the second center in 2021 in Eldoret to support women and families in Langas slums. In both centers a lot…
Ready to be challenged? Where marginalized people and managers meet and act together. Our MMH guesthouses in Webuye, Kenya
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…
Training on bar soap making for our communities and schools
Two days of successful training have passed. Two days that shall help hundreds of people in our communities in Bungoma county to get access to bar soap and to produce it on their own. Two years ago, our people with albinism community at the Ana King More Health house in Webuye had learned already how…
Go Kenya, go future! 