Kenyan youths turn a crime hotspot to a green space.
Located at the Nairobi River riparian land, a few meters to Nairobi’s official dumping site- the Dandora dumping sites. The park was transformed from a …
Meet Kenyan farmer rearing Fish and Black Soldier Fly using the smallest available space.
In Kenya, John Mwaura Kiriko, a businessperson from Kikuyu town about 20 kilometres from Nairobi city, is growing fish in a greenhouse and rearing black …
Solar-powered boreholes liberate Zambia’s Kafue Basin from wild fruits.
In 2014, the Strategic Climate Fund (SCF) under the Climate Investment Fund (CIF) funded the Strengthening climate resilience project in the Kafue sub-Basin in Zambia. …
It’s a wrap for the climate change impacts on mental health series.
Mental health is not often directly linked to climate change. In Kenya climate change effects are among things associated with the rising depression, suicide, post-traumatic …
Climate-related loss and damage: Who pays?
Climate impacts such as floods, droughts, firestorms, shifting seasons, sea-level rise, salt-water intrusion, the spread of vector-borne diseases, and devastation from cyclones and other extreme …
Displaced and forgotten: Kenya’s Rift Valley lake’s floods a year later.
Have the persons displaced by the 2020 flooding Kenya’s Rift Valley Lakes been forgotten? As Kenya rolls out a Covid-19 vaccination drive amid the country …
Culture – a panacea to the high mental health treatment gap?
Mental health problems in Kenya and Africa are often interpreted from either a religious or traditional perspective influenced by a person’s cultural perceptions. These perceptions …
Mental Health: why are Kenyan youths turning to drugs?
This week, we are still staying in Murang’a county. Today, we talk to Joseph Mbai County Executive Committee member in charge of Health Murang’a County. …
How does this GIS tool monitor landslides?
In many countries, some landslide-prone areas are known. But often, communities seem to be caught unaware when these landslides hit. Also read wrecked by Landslide: …
Wrecked by Landslide: No place to call home three years on.
Today’s episode features a family, victims of a landslide from Gitugi village in Mathioya, Murang’a County in central Kenya. About three years ago, a landslide …
There is no health without Mental Health warns experts.
Leonard Nasoro, a mental health specialist from Kilifi, Kenya says that Kilifi County in Kenya has three practicing mental health specialists against a population of about …
No, Mental Illness is not Madness says Experts
In today’s episode, we talk to Elias Fondo, the Kilifi County Mental Health Clinical officer, Leonard Nasoro, a mental health specialist, and a nurse at …