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…
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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…
What do you think of when you hear about slums?
When you think about slums do you think about poverty, waste, and poor education? When I was in slums in India and Kenya the first time I realized that it is much more than what I thought. Yes, there are a lot of poor people, a big issue with waste and hygiene and many other…
Soccer means so much …
This is Jasa Starlets (Jamaica Soccer Accademy) under 13 years team, celebrating their win during the Mukuru slums Street Soccer Tournament. This is an event that has been bringing various children and youths from the vast Mukuru Slum together to showcase their talent on football. „This is a way to bring the community of young…
Masks and beans for the poor – difficult situation in the slums
In Mukuru slums , Nairobi, the situation is really bad. “Children are at the verge of dying due to hunger. Three children died in the neighborhood,” says Francis, our local partner and social entrepreneur who in the past weeks had already organized a lot of soap making and mask production as part of our Making…
When people in need empower each other and share learnings – that’s what we call impact!
“We visited Positive Exposure today, donated masks. The masks will be shared to Jane’s team. We also held a training session taking her through the process of making Liquid Soap. She was exited as, just like the women and youths from Mukuru Slums, who have already benefited with this training, And are now earning a…
We care … impressions from the youth project in Mukuru slums
„We walked around the streets distributing liquid soap to the shops, hotels and small business traders that have installed hand washing points as we encouraged them to keep doing this. We were greeted with joy, smiles and appreciation as no other group had done such since the first case was announced by the Kenyan Government…
…and who cares about them?
Kenya, 10 June 2020. There are 2989 confirmed infections officially registered. The lockdown of the last weeks had many consequences: many informal jobs got lost. Lack of money, lack of means to protect themselves, more people suffering from hunger. Children are begging and who is not successful looks for food in the garbage places. Launch…
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…
Call for testing at school in Mukuru slum
Together with the Mukuru Aganza film academy in Nairobi, and under the umbrella of the Makingmorehealth initiative we run a Covid19 awareness campaign to inform people about measurements they can take to protect themselves and for participating in free testing. For example with posters as the one shown above – targeting a lot of people…
Awareness campaigns in slum areas
“We are continuing with community sensitization and Covid19 awareness in the slum. We are making use of social media platforms, from various groups within the informal settlement, community Radio station and also door to door in order to reach out to as many households as possible. Happy that out of the 13 sectors we have…
Go Kenya, go future! 