Our Making More Health center, GAASPP, started in 2020. Today, it is a pilot center for the whole region to support vulnerable communities in many aspects.
Tag: social impact
Working with youth communities in Kenya
If we want to make the world a better, a more sustainable one, we have to to start from where the people are and to understand their needs first. This means in community based countries as Kenya to understand the community structures, too! Community plays a central role in the Kenyan social fabric, influencing various…
Looking for interesting investment opportunities? Our system changer network partners from Kenya get 1st international recognition
Our System Changer network Kenya activities reach Finland
Our SCN Kenya partner Wa-Wa: A new building to create income opportunities for underserved communities at Lake Victoria
After launching an own center in 2023 for fisher communities who live at the poverty line investing in more health, income generation activities, education and environment , now the next steps are happening. Close to Homabay in the next weeks a new building with 4 classrooms will be finalized: tailoring, beauty, soap and detergent production…
When sustainability investments have some bad site effects…
Sustainable is good. Thinking sustainably, acting sustainably. Investing sustainably and, above all, in an impactful and socially entrepreneurial manner is a big trend. But what if there are unwanted side effects? Yesterday, I was in a children’s home in Tarikere, India. 25 girls between 11 and 17 years live there.“There are still food supplies for…
When Valentine created a big impact
Our System Changer Network partner Solasa in Eldoret, Kenya had a very special gift for Valentine’s Day:They met with women prisoners and donated a pad or a dipper for children born in prison. As the team said: “We are looking to sharing love and inspiring hope for these women and children in the smallest ways…any…
Impressions and voices from a visit to our latest SCN Kenya member in Mukuru slums, Nairobi
Yesterday, together with a colleague and some supporters from India and UK we visited VICCO, a young social and social entrepreneurial organisation in the middle of Mukuru slums in Nairobi. Shakur, the leader of VICCO. And his team are supported by the Making More Health initiative from Boehringer Ingelheim. Recently he joined also our national…
Do you know already our MMH cereals shop?
In Nairobi’s Mukuru slum we have established a few months ago a Making More Health cereals shop. Our local Partner organization V.I.C.C.O works here on a daily basis with women and children living at or even under the poverty line. The MMH shop is supporting 100 young mothers with nutrition for children below 3 years….
Child safety – an uncovered topic in Kenya. Soon we start a pilot project to change safety awareness
Children safety and safety prevention for children is still a very neglected and uncovered topic for Kenyan’s children. Trafficking, children that disappear – the number of missed children is high. Many of them are not even registered officially. In case of missing a child it is nearly impossible to find any trace… With a new program that we run together with the organization „ missing Child Kenya“ and the county police department we now want to raise more safety awareness – for children and parents.
Voices from our Making More Health Insights weeks in Kenya
In November 2023, fourty colleagues from Boehringer Ingelheim worldwide have participated in the Making More Health Insights weeks in Kenya. Here in Kenya, we run a lot of different activities in eight locations and have built exchange structures among the locations and local partner organizations so that the need of vulnerable communities can be covered…
Impact? That’s when victims have a chance to become heroes!
Recently, I met Elizabeth in her shop at the front of the Making More Health center in Webuye, Kenya. Elizabeth is a woman with albinism. Many years she – as many other people with albinism- she lived in extreme poverty, often discriminated and victim of crime. When she joined our center in 2021 her life changed from victim to heroe.
A day to remember: What happened at 4 October?
The center at Lake Victoria follows the concept of holistic and innovative solutions and programs for vulnerable communities while bringing constantly innovation into it through the systemic approach and the System Changer Network Kenya (SCNKenya).
Go Kenya, go future! 