I’m back in Kenya for the next three weeks meeting with social organizations, social enterprises and also a huge conference and our Leadership weeks – in several locations across the country. Today, let me share some impressions and two videos from my visit to the Nairobi’s slum Mukuru. The social organization VICCO works there with…
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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…
“Walls of good feelings” and more updates from our partner VICCO in Mukuru Slums, Nairobi
Some months have past since I have reported about the ongoing activities in Mukuru Slums, Nairobi. What has happened at VICCO, one of our partner organizations? A women and children shelter Well, first of all a women and children shelter could be set up. It helps women to leave their young children when they go…
When children teach parents about urban farming
In Mukuru Slums children of poor families come regularly to a children shelter that one of our local partners has set up. There they get a cup of porridge, can do some studies, relax and stay together. Here they learn also a lot about hygiene and health. Some of the children engage also in the…
Cycle awareness tour in Nairobi‘s slums – for more food security & safety
With an unusual cycle awareness tour in Mukuru slum in Nairobi a few days back, young and elderly have raised awareness for the need of food safety and security. The awareness ride was organized by VICCO NGO, a NGO that cares for urban farming in the slums and organizes daily feeding for children in need….
Back in Mukuru slums in the Covid crises
The next two weeks I’m back in Kenya to meet many people and visit the different social enterprises, local partners and projects, which we are running together with our local partners – mainly in Western Kenya. And to learn how locals tackle with the Covid situation… After the arrival in Nairobi during the first day…
KEnDIA, Kenya and Care for children
With KEnDIA, my not profit oriented online shop, I support a small center for children in Mukuru slums in Nairobi. The children center and library is more of a larger tin hut, but there is protection (at the moment the temperatures in Nairobi are 10-15 degrees in the morning, rainy season) and there is a…
A tree of hope in Nairobi‘s slums
In Mukuru Slum, Nairobi art boys have done a mosaics tree where community members join regularly alone to leave messages or in groups to discuss issues of Health and other issues that are emerging from the community. And the issues are a lot. Besides having heavy rains and floods, the lack of food and jobs…
A very simple day care center in the slums makes a huge difference
In the projects in Nairobi, in the Mukuru slum area where I engage on a private level we need urgently food for children. Food and care are provided by VICCO, a local NGO that is doing a lot to help these children. With the last donations (we were able to collect 690 EUR) 80 children…
A cup of porridge in the morning – update for those who donated in our VICCO project
Welcome for a cup of porridge! Friday, 19 January. They are children who can’t afford breakfast in the morning. VICCO through your support provides healthy fermented porriegde for the school children in Mukuru slums in Nairobi and people with mental illness. It is very early in the morning and children enjoy the porridge, talk, read…
When good things start to spread outside our own networks and affects other communities … then impact starts
The NGO V.I.C.C.O in Mukuru slums is one of the NGOs that stays in the neighborhood of one of our official partner organizations and while knowing about the activities they started to connect. This is fantastic – because together we can make even more impact happen. Why not sharing materials to all where possible and…
More Urban farming and mental health in Nairobi’s slums
„My names are Dedan, Shakur, and many others. I got them from the street. I am a second born of 4 raised by a single mother. Survived in the street of Nairobi for 11yrs. With all the things that you live there: hunger, abuse of drugs, crime, indignity. Later I was rescued and taken to…
Go Kenya, go future! 