It’s three years now that within our Making More Health (MMH) Initiative we have launched programs in communities living at the poverty line in Kenya. We have started to work with several partners (NGOs, universities, government and social enterprises), among them also GAASPP (Golden aging albinism support program) in Webuye and also with Mukuru Angaza…
Tag: Nairobi
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….
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 small engagement with huge impact
VICCO is not one of our main communities I work with under the Making More Health Initiative. However, where it is possible we share materials on safety, health and hygiene. With some private donations we helped to provide some food and to build a children care center ( very basic) in Mukuru slums. Some hygiene…
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…
Do you know what this is?
That‘s a roof of one of the rooms hosting three families with a total of 12 members in Mukuru slums in Nairobi. There is a huge problem of unemployment, hunger and idleness in the slums. With the Covid crises things have worsened a lot. “Most people are unable to pay the monthly rent of such…
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…
Co-creating with local changemakers – more hygiene for the slums in Nairobi
Together, we can make more health happen – also in the slums in Nairobi. Students from Nairobi took part in one of our six month competitions a few months ago. In the meantime they have founded their own social organization (Uhai365) and do educational work on hygiene in schools in the slums. Then we brought…
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 porridge brings a smile to you – thanks for your donation!
Last week our first donation money reached VICCO, a NGO in the slums of Nairobi that cares for children and youth, but also elderly. The need for food, but also safety, a cleaner environment and mental health is high. VICCO has started programs such as libraries, urban farming, drawing sessions and soccer games in the…
Go Kenya, go future! 