September 2022: The farmer men and women in the kibisi cooperative in West Kenya have started two years ago to learn about various income generating activities, such as dying, carpet making, tailoring. These activities are executed in addition to the field work. The outcome of the farming is not sufficient. This has many reasons: too…
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About farmers and life in the villages
A tower, a solar pump and Paul, the special backpack – Kibisi clean water project in Kenya inaugurated
“This lady was hesitant about ever drinking water from the Kibisi dam because it was dirty and contaminated. She said it smelled bad also. So when she came to the dam one of her neighbours gave her some purified water to drink teasingly saying it was from Kibisi dam. At first she refused because the…
With employee donations our third MMH center starts to “live”
How our Making More Health center in Kenya developed so far We have opened our first Making More Health center in Webuye in 2020 to support people with albinism and elderly in Western Kenya and the second center in 2021 in Eldoret to support women and families in Langas slums. In both centers a lot…
A cooking competition in our farmer communities – a joy that matters!
Vera who runs the family activities and is one of our local NGO partner (NGO Core Health and Wealth International) under the MMH umbrella has organized a cooking competition among the farmer women. It has been definitely a highlight and a big joy to all! The women are part of the communities in Bungoma County…
Farmer women in our project area in Bungoma county- on the way to change their life for better
Together, with our local NGO partner Core Health and Wealth (CHW) Family, in the past year we had started to run health and hygiene training sessions, but also trained income generating skills. “The women are learning new agricultural practices to improve the health of their households and also to address food security. The women are…
When the benefit is visible, scaling up becomes natural
Two years ago our activities with Health and hygiene training sessions, social economic development, infrastructural investments and general educational support in Kenya have started. One of our local core partners GAASP has now opened a first affiliated office, 400 km away from Webuye, Kenya where our first Making More Health house receives today nearly 300…
Holistic approaches to empower our farmer communities in Western Kenya
What is happening in our project areas in Bungoma County, Kenya in all the farmer projects? More than 12000 farmers and their families are involved, organized in 12 cooperatives. It’s not just about sharing good farmer practices and animal health training sessions, but also about a better hygiene, a better water quality and environment- friendly…
Digitalization is key and a huge benefit for our school in rural Kenya
This week, our MMH school teachers received digital gadgets, 5 tablets and a projector. They were very happy and are ready to learn more. “Now even the pupils will have an opportunity to watch videos that are related to what we teach as per the curriculum”, they said. Soon training session will start In a…
The marathon kuku or how to make your life a better one with chicken
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…
Sometimes a small innovation brings big change – farming with passion
After the harvesting period the farmer women in our cooperatives in Western Kenya had no income in the past. In the past two years this has changed. We started at that time with some soap making … Now, they have implemented some micro enterprises and demonstrated during my visit very proudly their achievements.Isn’t that great?…
Quinn wins: From a marginalized life to a caretaker
Quinn has a brother and a sister, all living with the condition of albinism. She is 45 years old, single mother and lives together with her child and sister in a rural village close to Webuye. “Life has been very hard for us. As children no one wanted to play with us. Never anybody from…
Fighting water scarcity in Bungoma County, Kenya with a community-based approach
Water scarcity is often treated as underrated issue in a world where half of the population is predicted to face unstable access to clean water sources by as early as 2025. While safe water is not only essential for drinking and aspects of basic hygiene, it is also indispensable for sanitation and disease prevention. Therefore,…
Go Kenya, go future! 