2023 Intake Open University of Kenya
2023 Intake Open University of Kenya

Community Outreach

Dr. Walter Okibo, a mental health champion and boy child advocate, delivering his presentation on the issue of Men's Mental Health in today's era. PHOTO/Courtesy.

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...
Fancied Families first visit to Gachororo primary school. Their aim has been to feed the children and keep them in school. PHOTO/Courtesy.

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...
Charlene Ruto (left) and Anita Soina during a past event by Charlene Ruto Foundation. Soina is a young climate change and environment conservation champion who has chased her passion since childhood. PHOTO/Courtesy.

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...
Inmates at Nairobi West Prison carry the donated mattresses on Thursday, March 16, 2023. The donation was done by Alliance High School, in collaboration with Crime Si Poa., under its Phoenix and After Care Program. PHOTO/Tebby Otieno, Scholar Media Africa.

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...
The missionary PCEA church in Thogoto, Kikuyu, where the cradle of education found its bearing and home. PHOTO/Njoroge Njuguna, The Scholar Media Africa.

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...
Dr. James Orodi, the Clinical Officer in charge of the Meet and Treat Outreach by Mercy Mission Hospital, James Orodiduring the program on February 9, 2023. PHOTO/Janet Kiriswo, The Scholar Media Africa.

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...
Creating preventative awareness through sports in the rehabilitation center's neighborhood. Jane has been exposing the young people to sports and other activities to keep them from drugs and substance abuse. PHOTO/Njoroge Njuguna, The Scholar Media Africa.

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...