Planting trees with our young students at the Making More Health school in Kenya

29 May 2023 “On Monday our Gaaspp Team, together with some school students, has planted trees and flowers in the MMH school compound. We have planted indigenous trees to provide shade, protection of wind and as resting place for pupils, for beautification, and for soil erosion protection,” informs Chrisantus, our local NGO partner from GAASPP….

Our MMH school is growing

Three years back we have constructed new school buildings for 700 children living in poor families around Webuye. They had visited a semi governmental school with very poor and also dangerous classrooms. No windows, no doors, bad or no boards and too less desks and chairs. Rain has been a huge challenge – because of…

Coming back to a world where people have choices

I’m very grateful for the past two weeks. I had the opportunity to visit several local NGO partners in Kenya. I’m grateful for all the visits and warm welcomes, for a lot of new and deep insights. For seeing that under the umbrella of the Making More Health Initiative we proceed with our System Changer…

He4She and She4he – no longer prostitution and HIV spreading at Lake Victoria

1st February 2023 – Today, we visited selfhelp groups at Lake Victoria, Kenya. Besides running several centers together with local NGOs in Bungoma county and Eldoret, we are active also in several communities in Homabay county together with our local partner Wa-Wa, under the umbrella of the Making More Health Initiative. HIV infections are widely…

System changer network Kenya in it’s 2nd year – connect to impact!

We believe in system approaches and networking when it comes to the development of communities living at or even under the poverty line – that’s how we run the system changer network Kenya in co-creation with local NGOs, social enterprises and most of all with the local communities. Next week our 2nd system changer network…

A government delegation visits our MMH Gardens

Today, a government delegation visited our MMH Kibisi Gardens in our farmer communities in Bungoma county, where also one of our MMH centers is located. The delegation was led by the Deputy County Commissioner in charge of Tongaren subcounty. “We had over 15 chiefs in attendance and the new Member of County Assembly. We shared…

There was really nothing in 2019?

“Wasn’t there really nothing in 2019?”, I was asked several times during the first Leadership week day by my colleagues when we visited our Making More Health center in Webuye which is at a 5 minute distance from our MMH guesthouses. Indeed in 2019, we have just started our first projects together with our two…