Diversity helps us, passion for humanity leads us! We belief that the impact of the past cannot be the impact of the future. That’s why we take new ways! We are on our fourth year now. The System changer network was launched in January 2022. In the first year (2021), In 2022, we officially launched…
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Our SCN Kenya meeting 2024 started
Webuye, Kenya: yesterday evening (23 Jan 2024) we started for the third time our annual System Changer Network (SCN) Kenya meeting – a 3 days meeting where the nine NGOs from Central and Western Kenya who form the SCN Kenya exchange, learn and plan together how develop communities who live at the poverty line in…
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…
There is a lot of hope now – Our system changer network starts into the 2nd phase
If you build a house you need more than materials, the ground and builders. You have to put things together in a certain sequence, you need to connect them. The craftsmen have to come in at the right time and place – and in a specific order. You need a good plan on how the…
A very special magazine…
Only a few days back Jane Waithera and her team from the Positive Exposure Organisation, located in Nairobi, have published their second magazine on people with albinism. In this Magazine you find stories of resilience and strength shared by persons with Albinism as they dealt with the challenges brought by the pandemic. You can download…
A training with huge impact – albinism in Kenya
Last week we conducted our 3 days of Albinism Awareness training in Webuye. With the help of our partners Golden Age Albinism Support group and Positive Exposure we from Making More Health educated county officials, police officers and other community opinion shapers on the fir treatment of Person with Albinism. With the knowledge and resource…
Our MMH house in Webuye – first constructions are done !
All started last November when we rented a small house to run the first training sessions on health and income generation. In the Covid crises it was A central place to share information on hygiene and to produce soap more than 130 families and people with albinism joined. And the number of interested people to…
They are made to shine – join our live session on 13 June
Made To Shine” is the theme for this year’s International Albinism Awareness Day (13 June 2020). The theme was chosen to celebrate the achievements and successes of persons with albinism worldwide. As the UN states: “It is also a call to stand in solidarity with people with albinism through their challenges. In this unprecedented time,…
Empowering others means to empower many – how networking empowers us in the fight against COVID19!
A few days ago we supported Positive Exposure Kenya, one of our local partners in Nairobi focusing to support people with albinism. we run several activities together. Now, the Covid19 crises is giving all additional challenges. Big ones. We gave them the means to produce masks and to help in this way to share the…
Young mothers with children with albinism empower themselves and upcycle – connecting the dots
Last week I visited Jane again in Nairobi. Jane has founded “Positive Exposure Kenya”, a NGO that cares about people with albinism (PwA) and inclusion. I visited her together with my Social worker from Western Kenya who also engages a lot for PwAs in Webuye. Together, we try to make the impact bigger, to build…
First steps to support people with Albinism in Webuye
It all began a few years ago when I met Jane Waithera, a remarkable Kenyan woman with albinism who leads Positive Exposure, an NGO dedicated to supporting People with Albinism (PwAs). Through her, I learned about the incredible—and often heartbreaking—challenges faced by people with albinism in Kenya. Many live in deep poverty, excluded from society,…
A day for people with albinism and without – because inclusion is key
On Friday this week we will launch Be in – Be out, a mobile website for people with albinism and all those being close to them. The launch day takes place in Nairobi, Kenya and is run together with the team from Positive Exposure. Be in – be you is an information source for people…
Go Kenya, go future! 