Our people in our MMH community in Bungoma county, West Kenya who have been affected by floods and lost their jobs due the Covid crises today received their 2nd month food support. The situation is still critical, especially for the elderly and marginalized people. The lack of sanitary towels “Another big challenge our women and…
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A ‚must see film‘ from a Nobel peace prize nominee about a visit in East Africa and kanthari graduates
One of the most amazing and inspiring people and friends I have met on my life are Nobel peace prize nominee Sabriye Tenberken and Paul Kroneberg, founders of Kanthari, a trainings center for all who want to change the world for better. That‘s why I share today a press release on a Documentary “KANTHARI –…
Call for testing at school in Mukuru slum
Together with the Mukuru Aganza film academy in Nairobi, and under the umbrella of the Makingmorehealth initiative we run a Covid19 awareness campaign to inform people about measurements they can take to protect themselves and for participating in free testing. For example with posters as the one shown above – targeting a lot of people…
A health and meeting center for women in the slums in Eldoret
Langas is the second biggest slum area in Kenya. Here in Eldoret, together with our NGO partner Solwodi/Solasa we build a Health and Meeting center for women and children. In a few months the old small houses where they meet and are trained at the moment cannot be used any more. We, under the umbrella…
Making More Health collaborates with SOLWODI/Solasa in the slums of Eldoret
“In accordance to the situation with the virus , we took it into our own hands as an organization to do the survey with our vulnerable families to see how exactly the situation is on the ground whereby we came to find out that 90% of our clients have highly been affected by covid-19 pandemic….
What do you know about albinism? Free for download training. Make more inclusion happen!
Together with our local NGO partners in Kenya, we have developed a knowledge training folder to share more knowledge about albinism. People with albinism (PwA) in Africa often are excluded from society. There is a lot of superstition and misbeliefs around – in all social levels – leading to prejudices, exclusion and a lot of…
The rainy season makes it even more challenging
It’s rainy season in Kenya. A lot of mud and humidity- especially in the rural areas. Many people are sick. It’s high season for cough and cold as well as other infectious diseases. The situation has never been good. With the Corona virus spreading around the situation is dramatic. Huge challenges for elderly and differently…
The story of Francis, a social entrepreneur grown up in the slums of Nairobi, – how he fights COVID 19 and how we work together
Francis Gikufu is one of our Making More Health partners in Nairobi. He is a social entrepreneur, one of those who experienced himself – right from the frog perspective- how it feels to be a slum child… and who today brings change to the people, especially the youth living in Mukuru slums… Francis Gikufu is…
Osha mikono yako – Covid -19 Awareness song to inform poor communities
Getting the right messages on how to behave in time of COVID- 19 – in a simple and timely way – to people living in poverty is not easy. The official news channels, the public information does not always work well. Low education, superstition and wrong beliefs as well as low access to information on…
The winners of our Making More Health venture4change challenge in Nairobi scale up and apply at United Nations contest
It started a year back when we launched the first Venture4change challenge and asked students in a 6 months challenge to develop and implement an idea on how to bring more hygiene into the slums. during the course the students learned about social entrepreneurial approaches and met successful social enterprises, but also left the classroom…
Covid19 – does not create new, but escalates numerous problems in the slums of Nairobi
Francis Gikufu, a Social entrepreneur who cares about young people in the Mukuru slum in Nairobi where he also lives himself, explains about the daily challenges people in the slums have to overcome right now: Fears, growing prices, the lack of food and failing support. And wrong assumptions by the people who never understood life…
If you care for us we have a little of hope to survive
“I had to make some stands for mounting the vessels. I educate them about personal hygiene and handwashing procedures as well as other ways of preventing the covid.19. I told them about the need for safety and keeping distance.” In our Making More Health communities – farmer cooperatives, villages and neighbors, especially the elderly- we…
Go Kenya, go future! 