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…
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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…
“Rural is cool!” – Tony, one of our Making More Health fellows, about a special week with our colleagues in Kenya
Tony Joy is a social entrepreneur and MMH fellow from Nigeria where she runs a very interesting and disruptive social enterprise, called Durian. It is important to her to create an environment to women and the rural youth that they do not migrate to the cities. She creates sustainable and green solutions – in a…
Impact is not about measuring activities and projects, but what vulnerable communities make really out of it
Two years ago, Addis has started to come regularly to the Making More Health GAASPP center in Webuye, Kenya. This center offers a lot of skill training sessions around (animal) health and hygiene, but also basic digital and business skills. It’s a place where people learn, exchange, consult, produce and also enjoy staying together. Addis…
Where business meets social: Welcome to our MMH guesthouses – feel good, do good!
What if your next (global) meeting Recently, we have inaugurated the MMH guesthouses in Webuye, Westkenya – in the middle of traditional villages and African rural life. The guesthouses are a few steps away from our MMH center where – together with our local NGO partner GAASPP – we run a lot of training sessions…
Investing in networking and relationships makes a visible difference: An Indian – Kenyan exchange visit (part 2)
During the past days our two local Indian MMH partners Selvaraj and Shibu from KKID (an Indian NGO partner) have had a lot of exchange and networking opportunities with many community members, NGO leaders, social entrepreneurs, teachers and other local stakeholders in our MMH locations in Kenya – from Machakos county to Uasin Gishu county…
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…
Soon our Making More Health Leadership week in Kenya will start…
It’s the second time after 2019 that we conduct leadership weeks, so-called MMH Insights weeks, for our managers coming from many different countries. Today, our first group of colleagues will arrive and stay a full week with us in the newly Making More Health guesthouses. All in all in the next two weeks we will…
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…
Step by step creating a better life – additional income sources for our farmer men and women
September 2022: The farmer men and women in the kibisi cooperative in West Kenya have started two years ago to learn about various income generating activities, such as dying, carpet making, tailoring. These activities are executed in addition to the field work. The outcome of the farming is not sufficient. This has many reasons: too…
The MMH teens club, cakes and joy
The MMH Teens club The MMH teens club in Mukuru slums, Nairobi, is a regular meeting point for teens who live in the area where our partner organization VICCO is active and runs a lot of different activities in projects, especially with women, but also youth. Young people from the age of 13 – 16…
A tower, a solar pump and Paul, the special backpack – Kibisi clean water project in Kenya inaugurated
“This lady was hesitant about ever drinking water from the Kibisi dam because it was dirty and contaminated. She said it smelled bad also. So when she came to the dam one of her neighbours gave her some purified water to drink teasingly saying it was from Kibisi dam. At first she refused because the…
Go Kenya, go future! 