As we are gearing up to start the R&D program, I thought it would be nice to share this inspirational video of our field manager’s six year old son, Abedi. One branch of the R&D program is product design, which will require a lot of empathy and creativity from our staff. Abedi shows us just   …Continue Reading

In our last program blog Renew and Renovate: Nuru International Healthcare’s New Year Lindsay Cope wrote about our Training Manager, District Manager, and new Program Manager. We are so grateful to have them as part of our team. And this week, I have been so proud of our entire staff in their display of understanding   …Continue Reading

Christmas in July? Sure, a common idiom.  New Year’s in June, however, has less of a ring to it. But, after my recent return from the field I saw and felt a new invigoration in our team—perhaps the sparked light for which Nuru was named. Despite the fact that as an organization we operate on   …Continue Reading

So there’s some big news for our program. As some of you may know, we’ve been selling latrines and handwashing stations in the community for the past several months. Unfortunately, we did not meet our sales expectations for latrines and this led us to try other approaches (such as barrier analysis), and also to re-think   …Continue Reading

I thought it would cool to share some more stories about the awesome staff that we are honored to work alongside here in Kenya. Today, I’d like to share the story of Elias Nyaitange, our program leader. I asked him how Nuru has changed his life, and here was his answer.

Well, we’ve got some bad news…latrine sales have not been as high as we have hoped. Despite the positive feedback we’d gotten from the community about our role plays, this has not translated into a lot of purchases. Although we’re a bit disappointed, we knew from our research that this was going to be a   …Continue Reading