Starting the week with two news of hope

1. Children plan and harvest in our MMH garden in Mukuru Slums We got some nice pictures from the MMH urban farming garden in Mukuru Slums in Nairobi where children actively are involved and learn how to grow plants: “We engage children in planting as they prepare to go back to school.. we managed to…

“What I have seen in Nairobi only in former times, has reached our farmers now” – Impressions from our farmers visit in Tongaren, Kenya

Together with a film team we visited recently our SCN partner organisation Core Heath and Wealth (CHW) in Tongaren, a very remote and rural area in Bungoma county. Organic farming fields which serve local, but also farmers from other locations and neighbor countries to learn about different farming solutions, a solar driven solar water system,…

Christmas impressions from our communities in Kenya and a call for help

Special moments, a little of Christmas stress here and there, but also joy, peace, family time and food without borders – that’s how many of us have lived the past days. From our communities living at the poverty line Kenya I received also some impressions full of joy, but also sadness: Christmas art and food…

Gaaspp about the work with PwA and how they were accepted by society

Communities have different members and this diversity has its own share of challenges. At Gaaspp we focus on people with albinism and the aged. Time and again people with albinism face unprecedented challenges ranging from social discrimination, family rejection, limited sun protection, no income source for those from humble backgrounds and biases at levels no…

When farmers form a choir it means a big step forward

This week – during our Making More Health Insights Week in Kenya – we visited also the Farmer cooperative Kibstar in Mbakalo ward, one of the cooperatives where we run – together with our local partner NGO Core Health & Wealth – a lot of programs and activities. Water purification and access support through an…

Soon our Making More Health Leadership week in Kenya will start…

It’s the second time after 2019 that we conduct leadership weeks, so-called MMH Insights weeks, for our managers coming from many different countries. Today, our first group of colleagues will arrive and stay a full week with us in the newly Making More Health guesthouses. All in all in the next two weeks we will…