2025 Intake Open University of Kenya
2025 Intake Open University of Kenya

Community Outreach

Participants dance as part of a wellness and healing session during Global Wellness Day celebrations last year at Nairobi Street Kitchen. This year's event will be on June 10, 2023 at Anzana Gardens, Nairobi. PHOTO/GWD Kenya.

Dance Magenta: Kenya to join the world in celebrating Global Wellness Day

The essence of the day is to make everyone aware of the value of our lives. To dance, you don’t have to be a professional dancer. You don’t need to know how to dance. Kenya will...
An overview of the Timbuktu city in Mali, the gate to knowledge and innovation in the ancient days. Africans need to get back to this academic and innovative enthusiasm. PHOTO/MOMO Africa.

Revisiting Human Revolution, a Journey Back to Timbuktu

There is a need to reinvent the spirit of Timbuktu’s educational orientation to revive the legacy of its scholars and promote education and research in the region.  Timbuktu is an ancient city located in Mali,...
An E-poster with details of the mental health awareness conversation. PHOTO/AMWIK.

Destigmatize mental health, advocates send clarion call

Poor mental health can immensely lower productivity in the workplace. Some of the triggers of mental health are tied to workplace stressors. Positive psychology helps us build and align ourselves to positive mindsets, making it easy...
During a street day at Kilimani Estate and surroundings by Kilimani Project Foundation. The organization aims to make Kilimani a love-filled neighborhood for everyone. PHOTO/Courtesy.

HEALTH: Unpackaging anxiety disorder

The residential association was started in 2012. It holds safe spaces, fun days and bonding sessions to make the estate lively and a go-to for investment and residence. Their recent safe space handled anxiety disorder. Mental...
Edinah Kangwana, MBS, MHC., a transformational woman leader and governance expert, admiring her Moran of the Burning Spear (MBS) Presidential Award which she was accorded last year to recognize her impactful leadership and community service. PHOTO/Courtesy.

Edinah Kangwana, trailblazer transforming lives through mentorship

She is a former banker and county executive with a heart for young people and women. Her life is characterized by a pursuit of transformational leadership from the grassroots upwards. A sought-after speaker who has...
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...