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We envision a world empowered with health, equity, and prosperity, and are on a mission to
connect communities to innovative health initiatives and economic sustainability programs. (GHC) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that connects with villages in Kenya to help empower and build sustainable communities.

We showed you a field of ash and an empty sky.On August 19 it rained — heavy, in the evening, the first real fall in two...
09/04/2026

We showed you a field of ash and an empty sky.

On August 19 it rained — heavy, in the evening, the first real fall in two months. Nothing since.

Look at the brush piled in the front of this photo. When Soklo's members cleared that field, they didn't burn all of it. The branches got stacked into a fence, and that fence is what keeps livestock off the cassava once it's in the ground.

The field is ready. They're waiting on a second storm.

Learn more here --> https://globalhealthconnections.org/soklo-village

09/01/2026

Ten weeks ago, these fit in your hand.

500 kienyeji chicks arrived in Kimuka Village on June 17. They've outgrown half of the coop they started in — the partition comes out this month and they get the whole floor.
Mid-October they reach full size. That's when the first eggs go to market.

Learn more here --> https://globalhealthconnections.org/kimuka-village

Two weeks ago 3 of Maugo Village's 6 shambas were planted. Last week, 5. The sixth was still waiting on the rotavator.Th...
08/28/2026

Two weeks ago 3 of Maugo Village's 6 shambas were planted. Last week, 5. The sixth was still waiting on the rotavator.

That's the tiller that breaks the ground before anyone can transplant. It's rice season across the whole area, so one machine serves every group that needs it, and the sixth sub-group's turn kept getting pushed back.

It reached them this week. "Planting will end by Saturday," Salome says.

Six acres, six sub-groups, every acre transplanted by hand.

The shambas planted first are already on the water cycle, drained dry to toughen the roots and then flooded again. The sixth starts that soon.

Learn more here --> https://globalhealthconnections.org/maugo-village

She agreed to answer 244 questions.That's what a midline survey is from the other chair. 105 on health, 87 on her life i...
08/25/2026

She agreed to answer 244 questions.

That's what a midline survey is from the other chair. 105 on health, 87 on her life in the village, 52 on money. Out loud, one at a time, to an enumerator with a phone.

She answered the same questionnaires in 2024, before the CHEC started. That's the before picture.

GHC did this again in over 220 households across Maugo and Nyamokenye villages, hers included, 22 months after both CHECs began. That's the after picture.

So did the CHECs work? Results soon. You'll see them here first.

Learn more --> https://globalhealthconnections.org/our-impact

08/21/2026

This shamba is bone dry, and that's exactly the plan.

GHC's Project Officer, Salome, sent this from the field: once a shamba's planted, the water gets drained out on purpose, dry enough to strengthen the rice roots, before it gets flooded back in. This is that in-between stage.

5 of Maugo's 6 shambas are at this point now, up from 3 last week. The 6th is still waiting on the rotavator.

Learn more --> https://globalhealthconnections.org/maugo-village

08/18/2026

Soklo's cassava field is ash from edge to edge.

The community finished burning it this week, clearing brush and old growth ahead of planting. It's been over two months since the last rainfall. The field's ready. The sky isn't.

So they wait. The moment the rain breaks, planting starts.

Learn more --> globalhealthconnections.org/soklo-village

Half the shambas are planted. Half are waiting on a machine.At this week's Maugo CHEC meeting, each of the six sub-group...
08/14/2026

Half the shambas are planted. Half are waiting on a machine.

At this week's Maugo CHEC meeting, each of the six sub-groups reported on its own shamba: 3 of the 6 rice fields are planted, and the crews are already cycling the water on those, draining each paddy dry to strengthen the roots, then flooding it again. The other 3 are seeded and ready to go, but stuck behind the Rotavator, the machine that tills the field before anyone can transplant.

It's rice season across the whole area, not just Maugo, so demand for the machine outpaces supply. It's booked for Wednesday and Thursday, and those 3 groups plant the moment it shows up.
Nobody skipped their turn. They rescheduled around a shared machine and kept meeting about it.

Learn more --> https://globalhealthconnections.org/maugo-village

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08/11/2026

The supers are on.
Last night, GHC's Apiary Manager, Mark Orondo, was in Nyamokenye helping the CHEC add honey supers, the removable boxes where the actual honey builds, to the 16 hives that moved into the apiary a week ago. Bees fill the super without the beekeeper ever touching the brood box below. That's the whole design: harvest the honey, leave the colony alone.

16 of the group's 80 hives are working now. The rest come online the same way, in batches.

Learn more --> https://globalhealthconnections.org/bees-and-honey

This Maugo women's group just finished planting their acre of rice, entirely by hand.They're catching their breath in th...
08/07/2026

This Maugo women's group just finished planting their acre of rice, entirely by hand.

They're catching their breath in this photo, the moment the work was done for the day. It's one of six acres across six sub-groups running this program in Maugo, the same structure since the rice launch back in June.

Learn more here --> https://globalhealthconnections.org/maugo-village


08/04/2026

This is transplanting day in Maugo.

Late last week, the women's group moved rice seedlings from the nursery bed into the paddy, row by row, on foot, in the mud. It's the step between weeks of ground prep and the months of tending before harvest.

Learn more --> https://globalhealthconnections.org/maugo-village

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