Last year (2022) , one of our Making More Health (MMH) fellows, Farmer Tantoh from Cameroon, trained our farmers in Webuye and Tongaren online on water harvesting, storage and purification. Some weeks later he visited Tongaren in Bungoma county and run an interview with a farmer and local authority about dam project which was set…
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A tower, a solar pump and Paul, the special backpack – Kibisi clean water project in Kenya inaugurated
“This lady was hesitant about ever drinking water from the Kibisi dam because it was dirty and contaminated. She said it smelled bad also. So when she came to the dam one of her neighbours gave her some purified water to drink teasingly saying it was from Kibisi dam. At first she refused because the…
Urban farming tours to spread the knowledge in the slums
In the slums in Nairobi nutrient food has always been an issue. But in the past weeks the situation has worsened a lot. The more the activities on urban farming – which has been initiated two years ago by Shakur, leader of VICCO, – become more important and attract the attention of many people living…
A water tower that matters
“I cannot even remember that anyone has come and helped us with such kind of infrastructures here”, said one of the farmers when the big water tower elements arrived at the dam, a large source of natural water in the middle of Bungoma county. “This water tower will help a lot our families to get…
Holistic approaches to empower our farmer communities in Western Kenya
What is happening in our project areas in Bungoma County, Kenya in all the farmer projects? More than 12000 farmers and their families are involved, organized in 12 cooperatives. It’s not just about sharing good farmer practices and animal health training sessions, but also about a better hygiene, a better water quality and environment- friendly…
Fighting water scarcity in Bungoma County, Kenya with a community-based approach
Water scarcity is often treated as underrated issue in a world where half of the population is predicted to face unstable access to clean water sources by as early as 2025. While safe water is not only essential for drinking and aspects of basic hygiene, it is also indispensable for sanitation and disease prevention. Therefore,…
Based on the co-creation with Kersia our impact grows – the winners are our community members.
In the last days Agustin from the Kersia group visited our Making More Health house in Bungoma County where he launched a hygiene and water project for ten schools in the surrounding. These activities are run by Kersia and will complete our Making More Health activities. This will be a very fruitful co-creation and partnership…
Our MMH house in Webuye – first constructions are done !
All started last November when we rented a small house to run the first training sessions on health and income generation. In the Covid crises it was A central place to share information on hygiene and to produce soap more than 130 families and people with albinism joined. And the number of interested people to…
What do you think of when you hear about slums?
When you think about slums do you think about poverty, waste, and poor education? When I was in slums in India and Kenya the first time I realized that it is much more than what I thought. Yes, there are a lot of poor people, a big issue with waste and hygiene and many other…
Life saving drinking water & hygiene – Training sessions for more than 6000 farmers and families
After being trained by our Social entrepreneurial partner Helioz our three local social workers, Chris, Cleo and Pauline have started a bundle of trainings of drinking water disinfection with our communities in Webuye, Western Kenya. The quality of drinking water is a huge issue in our project area. The way on how water is taken…
Training on Clean Water Initiative at Webuye started
The clean water initiative that we have launched a few days back has now been rolled out to our farmers and people with albinism community in Webuye. Impressions from the first training In our Making More Health house some of our future Community trainers (volunteers from the communities itself) learn about the usage of the…
Simple solutions to make drinking water safe – 6000 people will benefit
A few days back, we have launched a pilot project to make more drinking water available to our communities in our Making More Health project area in Bungoma county, Western Kenya. More than 6000 individuals living close to the poverty line in rural areas will benefit from it. How it works? Helioz, a social enterprise…
Go Kenya, go future! 