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…
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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…
Our school – a hygiene hub in crisis times
In the last months under the umbrella of Making More Health we have finalized the first building block for a school in Bungoma county. The inauguration was planned for end of March. But now this has been postponed. At school 750 students and their families around benefit from the new infrastructure which includes also hygienic…
In these times giving a little bit of safety to the elderly makes a huge difference – thanks to my colleagues!
In crises times the most vulnerable human beings often suffer even more than others. So do also the elderly in our project area in Kenya. No one has thought to inform them, to give them specific device and care on how to protect themselves from Covid-19! That’s why it is important to involve them in…
“Sun lotion chicken“ for our people in Kenya
This week the people with Albinism who are in our Making More Health community received some chicken. This will help them to generate some income. The days before they got some training on how to make sure that the chicken are treated in the right way and how to grow them. The poultry is an…
Trainings at Kenyan school with students and parents started
Two days ago, parents of the school in Kibisi (Western rural Kenya), have been trained on safety in their homes and on the importance of maintaining cleanliness at home to make more health happen. These parents are the parents of about 750 students visiting a very old school in a very bad condition which we…
Suncream for two children – thanks to the sponsors!
Two children with Albinism could receive today hats, sunscreen lotion and washing liquid soap. Because two of my friends helped with some money to make this happen. Thank you!! The children have been without lotion for 4 months as the family cannot afford. When we did the visit at the family’s house the children had…
Raising awareness at schools about albinism
Chris, my local social worker visited schools in Bungoma county in Western Kenya. Here we run a lot of projects with farmers and people with albinism. Chris went also to the schools where our children with Albinism learn and had staff meetings and discussions with teachers on how to handle children with Albinism. Some basic…
Liquid soap for a better life made in our MMH house
Today our community in Webuye prepared for the first time liquid soap. In our community which consists of many people with Albinism (PwAs) and their relatives in that rural town in Western Kenya soap is not available and the means to buy a piece are not there at all. So, in our Making More Health…
Also we celebrated Christmas – for the first time!
This is our Making More Health house in Webuye, West Kenya where since a few weeks our community for people with albinism meets regularly for vocational trainings, for health awareness programs and just for staying together. A few days before Christmas our community decided that they wanted to celebrate Christmas together. here in the Making…
Go Kenya, go future! 