People living at the poverty line are very happy when they can own a few chicken. That’s true I’m many countries and also here in Kenya. Having chicken – here they are called kuku- means having eggs and growing chicken means also having some small income. When I come for visit in the families often…
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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…
How jeans can help to grow plants in slum areas
Jeans are more than just a piece of trousers. Filled with soil and seeds it becomes an organic container to produce healthy vegetables. But it’s also many other containers that find a second way of usage while serving to grow plants. Find out more on this topic and how – in very frugal ways –…
A shop with site effect at the MMH center in Webuye
Some weeks back the first shop opened at our Making More Health Center in Webuye, Western Kenya. It is not a big shop, but for sure an important one – as it is also an indicator that people who had no income in the past are starting to do better. The small supermarket has been…
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 special day for children who live in Nairobi’s slums – a day full of fun and joy
The children live in Nairobi’s Slum. Their life has become even more difficult in the past months – due to the pandemic and the consequences. Their parents have often no jobs any more, food is very limited, lockdowns have led some children leave school for ever. Violence, poverty and children abuse and child work have…
Based on the co-creation with Kersia our impact grows – the winners are our community members.
In the last days Agustin from the Kersia group visited our Making More Health house in Bungoma County where he launched a hygiene and water project for ten schools in the surrounding. These activities are run by Kersia and will complete our Making More Health activities. This will be a very fruitful co-creation and partnership…
When students learn from people living close to the poverty line – field visits during our Venture4change program in Kenya
Developing social entrepreneurial ideas for food safety and food security – this is the task in this year‘s Making More Health Venture4change program for students in Western Kenya. On Friday last week 50 students from three universities (Eldoret university, Moi university and Kibabii university) – after first theoretical sessions- learned directly from the ground while…
Running a business without business skills is not possible but who teaches it to the people at the poverty line?
What might seem to be that obvious for people with a full school education, is very often not to people who live close to the poverty line. Business terminology such as differences between turnover and profit, business planning and business models, simple accountancy … but isn’t that essential if the gap between rich and poor…
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…
Women health kits are on the road
Some weeks ago we ran a webinar where we shared information about our local projects on women health. Our local NGO partners and social entrepreneurs explained how the situation is getting even more difficult for women as the accessibility to hygiene pads for many of them is not given (any more). The situation has always…
Two chicken for a better life
Just imagine you or your children are people with albinism. A genetic condition that makes life difficult, especially in Africa. Not so much, because if the condition itself, but mostly because of superstition, misbeliefs, exclusion in schools and later on often no jobs – poverty among families with people with albinism is widely spread…with all…
Go Kenya, go future! 