Over the weekend, heavy rains caused severe flooding across Nairobi, leaving dozens of people dead and thousands affected. Homes, roads and small businesses were submerged within hours as drainage systems could not handle the intense rainfall. (CGTN News) For many people in the city’s urban informal settlements, floods are not a rare disaster anymore —…
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From Mukuru to Western Kenya: How Tendo Is Scaling Community Solutions
Tendo – one of our System Changer Network Kenya Core NGOs – began its journey in the heart of the Mukuru slums in Nairobi. While still establishing itself, the team focused on empowering vulnerable communities through soap and detergent production, achieving certification from the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) early on.This gave the local people…
Systemic Change in Action: The V.I.C.C.O Knowledge Hub in Mukuru Slum
Safe, Skilled, Systemic: How Grassroots Innovation Builds Real Value In Nairobi’s Mukuru slums, where daily life presents countless challenges, the V.I.C.C.O Knowledge Hub is creating space for safety, learning, and transformation. Embedded in the System Changer Network Kenya, V.I.C.C.O takes a holistic approach to community-led change — turning local knowledge into scalable, systemic solutions. A…
How quiet inclusion creates lasting business value / series #3
Series Beyond tech: From unseen lives to untapped value—rethinking sustainable investment #3 I just came across a new call for sustainability pitch applications, and it’s exciting to see how vibrant and active this space has become. Over the past few years, I’ve attended startup events in Berlin, Nairobi, and other cities worldwide. The energy is…
Working with youth communities in Kenya
If we want to make the world a better, a more sustainable one, we have to to start from where the people are and to understand their needs first. This means in community based countries as Kenya to understand the community structures, too! Community plays a central role in the Kenyan social fabric, influencing various…
Looking for interesting investment opportunities? Our system changer network partners from Kenya get 1st international recognition
Our System Changer network Kenya activities reach Finland
Do you know already our MMH cereals shop?
In Nairobi’s Mukuru slum we have established a few months ago a Making More Health cereals shop. Our local Partner organization V.I.C.C.O works here on a daily basis with women and children living at or even under the poverty line. The MMH shop is supporting 100 young mothers with nutrition for children below 3 years….
Onsite experiences in Making More Health projects – volunteering in vulnerable communities in Kenya
Experiencing how people in informal settlements really live is key before engaging in projects. Supporting farmer communities in Western Kenya
Great news from our System changer network partner TENDO – first 3 hygiene products made by underserved community members in Mukuru slums are national wide certified!
During my visit a few days back in Mukuru slums at our NGO partner TENDO (let by our Making More Health fellow Sam Agutu) we had a great moment of joy together: we could celebrate the full certification of the first three hygiene products – a TENDO shampoo, a TENDO multipurpose detergent and a TENDO…
Health equity in informal settlements in Nairobi? A young woman shares about the gaps in healthcare and her way to become a nurse
Irene, a young women has grown up in Mukuru Slums, in Nairobi: A large area with hundreds of thousands of people living at and below the poverty line. Waste, informal settlements, illiteracy, teenage mothers and bad water conditions are just a few challenges… health equity is not existing. I have known Irene during a visit…
Raising a SMART generation! Empowering Kenya’s Youth
We are in the middle of a dedicated youth week in August 2023. A week for underserved children and teenagers in Kenya. Besides regular activities in CHW’s parents and youth center, health and mentoring lesson and many other activities with young people during the whole year, this week is a very particular one…
News from our system changer network in Kenya
A lot of things are going on in our system changer network in Kenya where eight NGOs are connected and exchange skills: At the school in our MMH Solasa campus we celebrate the day of African Child in Uasin Gishu county in Eldoret. At the Core Health and Wealth NGO in Bungoma County the first👆🏾👆🏾products…
Go Kenya, go future! 