Innovative Game Transforms Youth Sexual Reproductive Health Education in Rwanda By Jejje Muhinde Imagine being a young girl in rural Rwanda. Laughter fills your days as you play with friends. But then your body changes, and fear washes over you. You don’t understand what’s happening. This is the reality faced by many Rwandan girls like […]

How the Village Kitchen Helps Reduce Malnutrition in Rwanda By Annonciata Byukusenge Marcella Nyiransabimana wakes up at five every morning. Her primary activities are farming on a small two-hectare plot of her farm in Mwurire and caring for her children in a remote Mwurire village in the Huye district of southern Rwanda. At 40, Marcella […]

Saving lives of pregnant mothers, one backpack at a time By Harold Odhiambo   It is a typical day in the sprawling Nyalenda slums in Kisumu, nestled between the posh Milimani estate and Lake Victoria’s shrubs and vast mass of water. The shrubs are home to millions of mosquitoes, a deadly insect whose buzzing sound […]

How Kenyan Coastal Communities Fight Obesity in Children Through Sports By Lydia Atieno Penina Mutheu, a coast resident, takes her seven-year-old to swimming and boxing classes every weekend and during school holidays to make her stay fit. The daughter started last year after the mother realized her weight was becoming too much, noting that at the time, she had […]

Fighting Mental Health Burden in Rwanda Through Community Healing Spaces By Steve Nsamaza For years, silence held Caroline Mukandoli captive. Haunted by the genocide against the Tutsi, she grappled with depression and isolation. But then, she found a circle of support – a community healing space – that helped her reclaim her life and rebuild […]

Transgender Sex Worker Faces Stigma in Uganda’s Healthcare Amid Anti-Homosexuality Law By Jael Namiganda When Ramzay, a transgender woman and sex worker who prefers to be identified by only one name for fear of persecution, felt a bruise on her private parts, she rushed to the nearest health center for treatment. Seeking an ointment cream, […]

Nurturing Lives: A Digital Revolution in Maternal and Infant Health By Chris Omondi The central idea of our story, “Nurturing Lives: A Digital Revolution in Maternal and Infant Health,” revolves around the Technology Pregnancy Monitoring System in Kisumu County. Faced with alarming infant and under-five mortality rates, the county responded with a groundbreaking solution. This […]

How Waiting Homes Are Saving Lives of Mothers, Unborn Babies By Agnes Kyotalengerire “The government is replicating the waiting homes model in bad terrain and mountainous areas , such as Kigezi, Rwenzori, and Elgon in eastern Uganda ,to help in reducing the number of deaths of mothers and their newborn babies .” It is 10:00am […]