More than twenty managers from different countries and different functions have come to Kenya to participate in a very disruptive leadership week under the umbrella of the Making more Health initiative from Boehringer Ingelheim in close collaboration with our partner Ampath*. While these leadership weeks have been done for more than four years already in…
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Better life for people with albinism – human rights, community, health and a call to action
“I met my wife six years ago. Two years ago we married and got our child. A child with albinism”, tells me the Kenyan father during a tea break. “We were shocked. We did not even know very well what that would mean”, he adds while he looks with a bright smile at his child….
Make the world a better one for people with albinism.
Looking forward to an exciting event today: Making More Health and Jane Waithera and her team are launching albinism & I in Nairobi – an awareness raising website with a lot of information. We will have a lot of discussions with people ( people with albinism, parents, HCPs) on what they need and how to…
Eldoret – the first leadership week linking business thinking to social will start soon
Today, it was a huge preparation day for me and my local project managers and people I’m working with: finalizing logistics, field visits, checking if all is organized in the guest houses and the agenda details. In a few days here in Eldoret, more than 20 managers from different countries and functions will arrive and…
When students learn from people living in slums – time to rethink on how we run idea competitions
The ongoing Venture4 change competition*, a kind of hackathon for students in Nairobi is close to an important milestone. After having developed over weeks an idea on how to make more health in slums happen, after having participated in six different modules and meetings with social entrepreneurs, professors and business people, 5 student teams from…
A day for people with albinism and without – because inclusion is key
On Friday this week we will launch Be in – Be out, a mobile website for people with albinism and all those being close to them. The launch day takes place in Nairobi, Kenya and is run together with the team from Positive Exposure. Be in – be you is an information source for people…
Sex for fish – HIV and abuse at the Victoria lake
WA-WA Kenya aims to stop ‘sex for fish’ practices by empowering women and teenage girls around lake Victoria. “Our main goal is to address social inequalities between men and women which is resulting in a lack of recognition of their rights, very restricted access to opportunities and to power: this results in difficulties to major economic…
From India to Kenya …
My Indian activities and projects, the collaboration with many local stakeholders, the work with Self help groups, NGOs, with hospitals, women, schools, hygiene programs, digital trainings, health awareness modules for tribal and poor urban population – all this started in 2014 when I came the first time to India. And I started a blog called…
About suicides, screening and caring in Kenya
Today, we managed to screen police officers in Webuye’s police station and also some local people who were on the market. The screening focuses on diabetes and hypertension. One of the police officers said: “I really like and appreciate this screening. It’s the first time ever that someone started to think of such an exercise…
An interview in Kenya about schools, students and challenges
We arrive at one of the primary schools here in Bungoma county, Kenya. Many schools have very poor infrastructures and are in a poor status. In all the schools there are hundreds of children. The school we visit might be good at hosting 400 students. But the number of the students is growing every day:…
Visit at a dispensary
It’s in Bungoma county, close to Webuye where we stop to visit a dispensary and to discuss shortly with the doctor. Only a few minutes as she manages everything at her own and the number of patients waiting in front of the building is quite high. “Everyday”, she says, “I do at least 25 to…
Meeting a West Kenyan small farmer with passion – and referee by choice
It’s a warm day when I meet a farmer couple at their home. The farmer demonstrates with a lot of pride and energy his testing fields. He tries to find out out which kind of maize grows better with the continuously higher lack of water, how a mixed agriculture helps to avoid acid soil and…
Go Kenya, go future! 