Men’s Mental Health: Collecting the pieces, redefining gender empowerment
Suicide cases, with mental disorders being a major trigger, are affecting more Kenyan men than women.
Things went haywire long ago and need redemption.
The role of ensuring one another's mental wellness is on everyone's shoulders.
Much...
How Fancied Families program is putting a smile on kids’ faces
Millions of children go to school hungry.
The organization aims to keep the kids at school by feeding them.
They call for more hands to aid the children and reach out to more.
During the 1996 World...
The Green War: Soina’s impact on environmentalism and politics
She grew up witnessing the effects of climate change.
She started the Soina Foundation.
She was recently featured at the UN Water Conference 2023 in New York.
In the arid terrain of North Kajiado, where the sun...
Sleep for inmates as Alliance School and Crime Si Poa donate mattresses
Born in Uasin Gishu together with his elder brother, Ryan Ngigi has grown up seeing his parents go from struggle to struggle, trying to help other people.
It is a culture that he says slowly...
Reminiscing Thogoto, Kenya’s cradle of education
Thogoto, a quiet, cool and moderately populated village in the heart of the Kikuyu area, was not the original name of the village that now boasts tens of learning and other institutions distributed in...
How Meet and Treat Outreach program is saving patients’ lives
Most of the time, we have been ignoring the home grounds, thinking they are near the hospital and that patients can access the facility anytime, but we were wrong. We saw about 150 patients...
Jane’s call of destiny, compassion and how she’s saving lives
According to Jane Mwangi, a former career Banker, currently, the Director of the Willing Way Wellness Center, the true path of destiny hangs around and about us all the time, from the cradle to the...
Why JKUAT’s Dr Nyaberi is emulating Koffi Annan
A Kenyan in the first cohort of the Koffi Annan Health Leadership Fellowship has vowed to become Africa's female icon in the betterment of other people's lives.
Dr Jackline Nyaberi of Jomo Kenyatta University of...
How Hindu philanthropists use books to empower communities
There is a Filipino proverb which says, “a young tree is easy to straighten but when it is big it is difficult.”
One may say that this is the guiding philosophy behind the philanthropic works...
Family seeks to satiate community appetite for books
It has been argued that Kenyans are increasingly distancing themselves from books unless there is an examination ahead of them.
Depending on how one looks at the argument, it is either true or false.
But for...